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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there any former BASIS kids who made the switch to Walls and came to regret it?[/quote]
I believe I heard from HS parents that two begged to come back and couldn't. 
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I know people are going to say it's because of how the school is structured but it's also asinine. Latin allows kids to transfer back which speaks to its embrace of its students and why its praises are sung so consistently. It also speaks to BASIS rigidity.

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Do you mean students who leave Latin and enroll in and then attend a different school can be re-admitted to Latin without going through the lottery? Or donthey have to lottery in but BASIS doesn’t let former students lottery in?[/quote]

Latin allows students to come back sophomore year if they don't like their new school for freshman year without going through the lottery.

BASIS basically never takes any kids after 5th grade lottery saying it's too hard for kids to catch up.[/quote]

All of which makes sense.[/quote]

Neither makes sense. Basis is not so special that kids can only do the work if they have been there since sixth or seventh grade.  Latin kids are not so special that they should get special treatment and take the rare spots that open soph year ahead of other kids who have to go through the lottery. 
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The slowest math track at BASIS involves two years of high school math before the 9th grade. Most kids in DC don't do that. And, just like they're not allowed to admissions test, they're also not allowed to pick based on the curriculum the kid has done, so they can't just admit the kids who have. [/quote]

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