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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The way Watkins deals with the Basis/Washington Latin departures for 5th grade is to go from 5 sections of 4th grade to 4 sections of 5th grade.  
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Slightly off-topic: Why are charter middle schools (Basis and Latin) allowed to start at 5th grade when that grade is still part of the elementary school in DCPS? It seems like charter schools that start in middle grades should be made to start at the same grade as DCPS middle schools so as not to undermine the 5th grade in DCPS elementary schools. [/quote]
I am quite happy that my kids got a chance to enter a charter in fifth grade - they were better served that way.[/quote]

To give time to people who don't like their charter options a year to reassess before 6th grade  I wouldn't count on the charter lottery for 6th if shut out for 5th.

That's the only benefit, but that's not why the charter  schools do it.  They claim they want the extra time to prop up the many deficient students they received from DCPS.  They see it as an intervention.  Some charter also take undue credit for successful students even when the kids are practically gift wrapped by their previous schools (charter or DCPS).[/quote]

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