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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My suspicions were right about segregation at BASIS S DC.  My wife and other parents brought this matter to the Paul Morrissey ( then head of school) months ago.  There were a group of students being tracked.  Mr. Morrissey was evasive with our questions. His vagueness seemed suspicious to many of us.  Was he tracking these kids so he would later throw them out? Our sixth sense told us something was not right here. I can't believe it was true.  My kids were not in the group but I can't have my child in this kind of this environment.  I was a strong supporter of BASIS but it's dwindled.   After these revelations, I'm forced to question the real motives of the school.  I can't believe it was happening here in DC.  I'm outraged!!![/quote]

Wrong.  It had zero to do with race because there were plenty of AA kids in all of the other classes, there were also plenty of star AA kids on the honor roll and 90s club - to suggest it was about race is absolute nonsense.  And anyone who actually has been to BASIS would know that, I don't know who you are but you don't seem to know what you are talking about and probably are not a BASIS parent, because a BASIS parent would know better and wouldn't be making such uninformed and clueless statements.

From wht I heard there was a small group of kids that was tracked because it was discovered that they could barely read and barely knew addition and subtraction let alone multiplication and division, and were flunking every class and needed a whole lot of extra help - so, seeing that these kids were several grade levels behind where they should have been, they broke them out into a group and focused on bringing them up to speed on the crucial skills they were missing.  And here you are criticizing BASIS for actually caring and actually trying to help those unfortunate kids.  Unbelievable.  If anything, I wish more schools cared as much as BASIS does.[/quote]

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