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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You call it “gaming the system” but making sure a student gets a 3 on one AP exam by senior year should be the minimum goal of all schools.  This is not a high bar.  It’s sad that most schools don’t make “college readiness” more of a priority.  [/quote]

You’re not understanding what they’re doing. They’re literally preventing anyone who cannot score a 3 on an AP test to advance to 12th grade. US News looks at the number of seniors who have taken and passed (with a 3) an AP test. There is no way for a kid to make it to 12th at BASIS if they haven’t done that.

Other schools have to keep the kids who are not academically inclined enough to get a 3 on an AP test. [/quote]

I’m a happy basis parent who understands the problems of the school.  Please get it right, there aren’t 9th graders who can’t get a 3 on an AP.  Most basis eighth graders have at least one.  By twelfth they are done.   [/quote]

Preventing the kids you won’t even try to educate from reaching 9th grade is an extremely reliable way of preventing them from reaching 12th grade, especially if you don’t admit after 5th grade.[/quote]

So you are a believer that every school should be able to teach every student perfectly?  DC is probably the wrong place for you as that isn’t how it is set up.   You need a large suburban system.  Have you considered Fairfax or Montgomery County?  It might give you more of what you are looking for, as you need large numbers to make that work.  [/quote]

NP and a BASIS parent.  I don't think every school should be able to teach every student perfectly.  But I do think that BASIS's "college readiness" score is total hogwash, given that they weed out the kids who would drag that number down.  And I think their high rank in US News is not reflective of the quality of teaching at BASIS, which I have found to be spotty, at best. [/quote]

You don’t understand college readiness or USN&WR rankings.  Maybe sit this one out.

And feel free to transfer to a different school.[/quote]

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