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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish it was absurd. The current tin-eared BASIS admins are the dregs.

Most my younger kid's friends won't be returning for 9th grade in the fall. This wasn't the case with my older kid. The departing students are some of the highest performers in the cohort, [b]particularly for math. [/b]

But whitewash away if it makes you feel good.[/quote]

Where are they going? I'm assuming not Walls if they are going somewhere for math.[/quote]

We left basis after 8th, went to Walls. Took Pre Calc in 9th, taking BC Calc next year in 10th[/quote]

Good for your kid. It's a myth that kids need to stay at BASIS to accelerate in math. J-R and McKinley also offer BC Cal to 10th-12th graders.[/quote]

JR let’s you take BC even in the 9th. [/quote]

How many do that?  Zero[/quote]

More than zero. [/quote]

lol

75% of J-R is BELOW grade in math.

The school can't even get a majority of its students to grade level in math.[/quote]

The point was whether there are 9th graders who can take BC at JR. And there are. It doesn’t matter how many are below grade level. [/quote]

As long as a kid has all prerequisite math courses on their transcript they can take BC as a 9th grader.  I assume this goes for any DCPS high school.[/quote]

This whole superficial advancement is not that great.  Kids don’t have a solid foundation and then you rush them to advance more.

It’s much better to have a good foundation and go deeper for challenge than advancement.  That is why when these kids from DCPS or charter go to private, they struggle or retake math they took in public. [/quote]

No. BASIS' math track looks very similar to the Advanced track at suburban schools. The difference is that BASIS allows everyone who gets in a chance to do it (rather than testing in).[/quote]

BASIS’s math track looks [i]superficially[/i] like the advanced track at a handful of suburban schools, yes. But are the kids really learning the math? That’s the question. Algebra I PARCC scores out of Basis suggest most kids there are over accelerated. [/quote]

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