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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]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]

Dammed if you do dammed if you don't. Disgruntled parents will always find a way to blame everybody and everything else before they accept responsibility for them and their kids.[/quote]

The irony is that the disgruntled parents sought the school out, knowing that it would be demanding academically. When students need additional help -- often remedial help -- they need classes specially tailored to their needs. If they need to relearn -- or even learn  for the first time -- the parts of speech, the parts of a sentence, how to diagram sentences, they need a special class. Such a class would by necessity have to be separate from the classes geared to students at grade level. DCPS favors "differentiating" in the classroom. In practice, this has never worked. That's why chart schools exist -- parents got sick of their children learning little or nothing. Often, five grade levels would function in a single classroom. Disgruntled parents at all schools know this. Their ability to accept the reality that their students don't know the basics varies widely. At some point, a school has to "track," as it were, students for readiness and ability. All parents -- disgruntled or otherwise -- were told this reality from the start.[/quote]

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