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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You call it “gaming the system” but making sure a student gets a 3 on one AP exam by senior year should be the minimum goal of all schools.  This is not a high bar.  It’s sad that most schools don’t make “college readiness” more of a priority.  [/quote]

+1.  Basis is ”gaming the system” by having high standards?  That is a stupid argument.

DCPS doesn’t even require one AP class to graduate.  You can take an auto mechanics class instead.  No wonder most DCPS schools fail at preparing kids for college.[/quote]

+2.  While DCPS doesn’t require an AP class, Walls effectively requires 2 AP classes (Basis requires 6 AP classes).  I guess that Walls is “gaming the system” too.[/quote]

No, because Walls is open about being a selective school and BASIS loves to claim that it isn't selective. And because Walls doesn't make people repeat grades.[/quote]

Uh, they only let in kids with an A average.[/quote]

Right. Which they are open and honest about. Unlike BASIS which pats itself on the back for being "pure lottery" and then has various ways of running off the low performers.[/quote]

Basis is neither patting themselves on back nor hiding anything.   Basis, as a charter school, is not able to do it any other way.   They make it very clear what the model is.  If you choose to send your child there despite knowing it is a bad fit, the issue is parenting not disclosure.  [/quote]

They chose the yardstick specifically because it's the USNWR yardstick not because they think it's independently valuable. Of course that amounts to gaming the system...[/quote]
Basis parent here, and I agree with you for the USNWR stuff.  Passing an AP exam is not even slightly a high bar, but Basis is undoubtedly requiring it to game their USNWR rankings.

That doesn't mean it isn't a good school, and it also doesn't mean that it's specifically "running off the low performers."  Basis provides a lot of support in the forms of student hours, tutoring, test corrections, and the like to help struggling kids pass their classes.  Any reasonably average kid who is a motivated, hard worker should be able to handle Basis and even pass that one required AP test.  The biggest difference between Basis and most other schools is that kids are held accountable at Basis.  If you don't do the homework, you get a zero.  If you turn it in late, you lose points.  If you're struggling in a class, you are expected to attend student hours and learn the material.  If you don't use classtime and study hall time constructively, you're going to end up overwhelmed with homework.  If you only learn the material to a B level, they're not going to give you an inflated A.  [/quote]

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