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Why not have an admissions process for ninth grade admission to Basis? Surely the great minds could figure out how to at least attempt to fill those seats. Basis senior classes are so small.

But I guess they will continue to just throw their hands up and say no one will let us have an admissions test so we will go along assuming that no single child in the entire city is smart enough to join Basis for HS.

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I think the problems is not that the kids are "so smart" which I agree is really obnoxious framing, but that they keep the kids in this very accelerated and kind of rigid path. So if a bright 9th grader comes in, but they haven't taken algebra 2 and Geometry, they actually can't join their cohort. I guess they could join the younger kids, but then will they land at the weird senior year?

We are enrolling and I'm learning as much as I can, and I think this rigidity, right or wrong, is hard to get around. do I think kids need to be that accelerated? Probably not. But that's how Basis does it, and that's what makes it hard to enter midway.[/quote]

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