Reply to How was the meeting with the admin meeting last week at BASIS?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "How was the meeting with the admin meeting last week at BASIS?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I was being imprecise - yes I agree BASIS clearly represents itself as a school pushing intensive college prep and AP coursework with a heavy STEM focus. But my point is that it also clearly represents itself as a school that, by virtue of its world-renown program and infrastructure, can enable most if not all students to succeed in this endeavor i.e., no selective admissions, no tuition, etc. I have in mind this article http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2014/04/23/basis-and-university-high-are-top-us-high-schools-which-means
and this response by Tucson HOS http://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2014/05/06/the-head-of-basis-tucson-north-responds
in which she said, in no uncertain terms, "the mission of BASIS is to provide a world-class education to all children" and "make this challenging curriculum accessible to all students".

The economic reality is that BASIS charter school cannot afford to have a student body limited to those who can really handle the academic curriculum (about 50% in my experience), let alone excel (5-15% in my experience). [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics