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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right, something. But why run a school as an unhappy exam prep academy...by design?  I never got the point when we were at BASIS, before we moved to NW. The message from admins was always "our way or the highway" even when the ask in question would have been easy to accommodate, at no expense to the school, and would have helped the kid excel at this or that.

Plenty of high-performing kids enjoy public high schools and end up doing well in college. Believe it or not, things have been much better for us at J-R. No, the STEM isn't as advanced, but the kid is much happier and, I suspect, en route to a highly competitive college as a result. He cheerfully gets up at 5 AM to row crew. We used to have to drag him out of bed at 7. So, that is something. [/quote]

I concede that there are some BASIS boosters who think this is the superior model for all kids, but most people wouldn’t say that. It works really well for some kids.

I think there’s a far larger proportion of parents who are frustrated that [b]JR caters to the bottom decile kid at the expense of the median kid[/b]. This is a fundamental problem for all DCPS. Some begrudgingly end up at BASIS, some tough it out. [/quote]

I don't really understand this comment.  I realize that honors for all is a crock and grade level classes are barely grade level...but JR offers 29 AP classes (open to anyone), so Sophomore year you have kids taking 2, Junior year the sky's the limit and senior year the sky's the limit (take 0, or 1 or 6 per year if you want)...and you can take DE classes at GW, Georgetown, etc. if you want.

There are some great AP teachers...and a minority that aren't so great...but most teachers run fairly good AP classes and at least my kid has done well on the tests (80% 5s and 20% 4s).

I would say Deal is probably more along what you are talking about, since you can only really separate on the advanced Math track.[/quote]

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