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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asian PP above claimed that her middle school age kids are into music, art and a language. Um, maybe not all.
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Right, and said they turned down BASIS and are at a private on music scholarships instead, for this reason.

So if the way to appeal to Asian families is not necessarily "be BASIS" then what it is it?

I suspect it has to do with [b]cohort[/b] and that as a result, DCPS schools cannot offer it past the elementary grades except in upper NW. Largely an issue of families SES and parental education level. Asian families on the Hill are not going to participate in creating buy-in at Hill MS and HS, but they might agree to send their kids to these schools IF enough high income, highly educated families create that buy in themselves.[/quote]

Not cohort. Curriculum.[/quote]

There's nothing wrong with DCPS curriculum (or nothing wrong that isn't also wrong with BASIS curriculum, or any other district) The issue is how to teach it in a district with such a large number of at risk students, where there's a political imperative for social promotion and where higher expectations and consequences for failing to meet them will always be viewed as "inequitable" because demographics will result in disproportionate negative consequences for poor and black or brown students [/quote]

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