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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes and the PCSB may not have approved something that looked like there was a lot of counseling out. I know they asked a lot of hard questions about BASIS. PCSB wants to see charters, which are their own LEA (school district essentially) serve ALL learners. [/quote]

OK, so serve ALL learners really well by requiring them to pursue the full IB Diploma. If students don't want to do that, they can vote with their feet. This happens in tried and tested public/state/government IB Diploma programs the world over.

You're not doing your weaker students (read mostly poor Latinos) any favors by offering them an empty "soft" IB vocational training option at a school without anywhere near the facilities to do it right.  If you want to know what those facilities look like, visit Roosevelt, Coolidge or Dunbar.

Earning the 24 or 25 IB points to get the Diploma is hardly an insurmountable bar to clear for your hard-working, literate and numerate teenager. The challenge motivates most kids to rise to the occasion. Give me break, average points total at most of the suburban IBD programs in this Metro area are in the high 30s. The IB students at Eastern are earning the Diploma with totals in the mid 20s, and going on to elite public universities and liberal arts colleges as a result.

The tyranny of low expectations is alive and well in DCPS, and on this board. Nobody wins.

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