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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We can blame DCPS AND expect Basis to open its doors to students who can do the work. Do you think the kids who peel off for the competitive privates at ninth grade couldn’t handle Basis?  Or the 4.0 kids who go on to SWW and then to top colleges? Why was SWW able to have an admissions test for so many years but Basis couldn’t?[/quote]

So you want your rising 9th grader to go to BASIS?  Or are you mad your BASIS (or not) rising 9th grader didn’t get into Walls?

Those kids with 4.0s you speak of going to SWW or privates could have gone to BASIS in 5th grade.  For the most part BASIS went through a significant portion of their waitlist at that time. Then they could have stayed for HS. Problem solved.

Someone will know the reason why BASIS can’t have a tests. I think it has something to do with how its charter was approved.
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This is always the Basis argument: You’re jealous. No, but I see where this city lacks good opportunities for smart kids, opportunities in the form of unfilled seats at Basis. Anyone can see that. Even people at Basis.

What about those 8th graders who are 4.0s now? Or three or four or five years from now?  I guess they have to be lucky when they are fifth graders because, in practice, Basis closes their doors and leaves seats empty beyond sixth or seventh grade (when only Basis siblings can magically be Basis-ready).

Kids coming out of Basis have gotten a great education and are ready to do great things. Too bad some people there can’t bring themselves to share more of that opportunity.

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