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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand these demographic discussions. IME, the students who struggle the most at BASIS are UMC white kids. I don’t think BASIS will start struggling if less of them attend.[/quote]

That’s an interesting observation, especially since it’s inconsistent with the reported PARCC scores, which show a pretty substantial gap in favor of white kids. [b]If BASIS had to go just on its nonwhite scores, it wouldn’t be ranked nearly so highly. [/b]And I’m under the impression that BASIS cares a lot about rankings.

Why do you think there’s such a discrepancy between your observations and the data?[/quote]

Come on, that's true of almost every school with a substantial white cohort in the city.  Where does your nitpicking get you?  No school has a magic wand to fix the poverty. There are a handful of boot camp DC charters where low SES minority students compete with whites on PARCC scores, that's it. [/quote]

The PP’s position is that “[b]the students who struggle the most at BASIS are UMC white kids[/b].” I didn’t say they were wrong. I just think it’s an interesting observation, since the tests say the opposite. [/quote]

PP is going off vibes.[/quote]

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