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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Education researcher Betsy Wolf explains why she opposes expansion:

https://betsyjwolf.substack.com/p/basiss-proposed-expansion

I don't agree with her criticism of Basis, but the data she presents is informative.
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Thanks for sharing, Betsy.

FYI, Betsy Wolf is an white social justice warrior who thinks charter and magnet schools are racist.

Here is a quote she recently tweeted out:

“'White communities want neighborhood schools if their neighborhood school is white,' she says. 'If their neighborhood school is black, they want choice.' Charter schools and magnet schools spring up in place of neighborhood schools, where white students can be in the majority."

Thank goodness no one listens to her.[/quote]

Betsy Wolf sucks.

She circles around the idea that public money should support schools that serve the public -- here is a quote:

"Would the DC PCSB approve their expansion if BASIS stated, we’re here to serve children of parents with advanced degrees?"

But how does that argument square with the existence of schools like Walls, Banneker and McKinley? Clearly she believes that it's ok for some public schools to serve a small sector of high achieving kids. That BASIS actually accepts everyone should be a mark in its favor.

Until DCPS offers than Deal and Hardy for parents who want academically challenging options for this kids, she should open her mind to BASIS.

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Right? This is too silly:

"Whether BASIS should be allowed to expand is fundamentally a question of values. Further advantage the advantaged, or serve the common good?"

The common good surely includes helping set up the highest achieving students to achieve as much as they can.[/quote]

It does, but it also requires that the most students reap the most good. If you want your kids to get an elite education at some experimental education project with insanely high rates of failure, send your kids to private school. There are plenty of them. Don't expect the rest of us to foot the bill.[/quote]

That is such a dumb argument.

DC spends $2.7 billion a year on education but most students are below grade level in math and English.

For example, DCPS spent $124 million a decade ago rebuilding Ballou High School.  Yet the school has the second worst truancy of any school in DC and many kids there are illiterate and innumerate.

Yet you complain about Basis, which spends a minuscule fraction of the DC education budget every year and has the best academic results in DC.

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