BASIS student, have they left the school?

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To the child-doing-homework-until-2:00am parent: what would happen if you just cut your child off at 9:00? Would that just add to the load on the next night? Not judging here, just curious!

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What child, presumably a 10 or 11 year old can be up at 2am and functioning?

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Anonymous wrote:What child, presumably a 10 or 11 year old can be up at 2am and functioning?

Not to mention the next day?! Just doesn't make sense. I can't imagine that any school would make this a policy, not even Basis.

[Anonymous]

To the PP who has a child up until 2 am: has your child gone in to talk to teachers about strategies for studying and doing homework? What do they tell him when he says he was up until 2 am? My BASIS student has found his teachers incredibly accessible and helpful. He stays after school to meet with them regularly. The other day he saw a teacher after school for math. It wasn't his own teacher, but she was more than happy to help him and taught the concept in a slightly different way than his own teacher. He now gets it.

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Anonymous wrote:To the PP who has a child up until 2 am: has your child gone in to talk to teachers about strategies for studying and doing homework? What do they tell him when he says he was up until 2 am? My BASIS student has found his teachers incredibly accessible and helpful. He stays after school to meet with them regularly. The other day he saw a teacher after school for math. It wasn't his own teacher, but she was more than happy to help him and taught the concept in a slightly different way than his own teacher. He now gets it.

Completely agree. The advantage of BASIS is that what is required is clear, both in terms of what you have to master in each class to succeed and in terms of how each class is graded. Homework is not, according to the syllabi of most classes, a large percentage of your child's grade, and it is usually only checked for completion not for accuracy. If your kid is staying up that late he needs help - from teachers, from you, because something is seriously wrong. Ask other parents in his section how they are surviving. Call for an SST meeting if necessary. Get on the boosters group and ask for help. My dc's teachers taught them how to use quizlet to study, and so much more. If your child is struggling academically, there are so many avenues to seek help. You need to use them. Good luck.

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OP here. Thanks for all your suggestions.
My child goes to tutoring after school and comes home around 6:30. However having 3 quizzes in one day as well as 2 other homeworks can be very time consuming. There are also a couple teachers who give the task and expect the students to do most of the work independently so the assigned homework is not really reinforcement, but rather learning new concepts.
Someone suggested contacting boosters. How would they assist in this situation?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for all your suggestions.
My child goes to tutoring after school and comes home around 6:30. However having 3 quizzes in one day as well as 2 other homeworks can be very time consuming. There are also a couple teachers who give the task and expect the students to do most of the work independently so the assigned homework is not really reinforcement, but rather learning new concepts.
Someone suggested contacting boosters. How would they assist in this situation?

Quizzes and tests are announced 5 days in advance. I would have your child begin studying the day it is announced and do a little bit everyday. It is also helpful to review class notes and handouts every weekend to help reinforce the material. # quizzes is not that much in my opinion since they are short and help reinforce the material. Tests are limited to 2 in one day.

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NP here-while the pp is well intended, this advice does not work, I am afraid, at Basis-if one is "working ahead" in math like Basis parents suggest doing, studying/reviewing for the tests and quizzes and doing homework each night all for the following day and studying every day for tests and quizzes to come later during the week for concepts they have not yet gone over in class and where exact verbage is integral to doing well on said quiz or test, how on earth does this achieve anything? You are then spending more time on hw every night, not less, and DC is "guessing on what they need to know for the tests and quizzes that they are studying well in advance for, since the ideas for most of those tests and quizzes have not been introduced in full yet. The guessing and teaching oneself instead of reviewing notes means you are spending more-not less on homework, and probably learning things in ways other than how the teacher wants you to.

[Anonymous]

NP here -- turn off the TV and WiFi. I have a child at BASIS (2nd year) with no screen time during the week and 4 extracurricular activities and bed time is never later than 9:30. Period. Something is wrong with OP's picture.

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^^^NP - That is a very smug comment. It is also very presumptuous of you to assume her child is watching TV and is on the computer. I also have a child at Basis and I understand what the poster is saying although I don't think DCUM is the place to say it. Every child comes in with a different needs and skills. The science is taught so quickly that my DC often has not grasped the material in order to do the homework. We have bought a science book off of ebay and that provided some help but we are finding that the teacher is also introducing concepts beyond the book. Hence we have also resorted to quizlet and Answers in order to assist with getting the work done in a timely manner. No one at the school recommended this but as I use it to check his homework, I recommended it to my DC to assist him in correcting the answers I have identified as in error. I have also downloaded numerous different explanations of concepts with which he was having difficulty with during homework or quizzes and had him review it. So far it is working and he got 100 on his last science test (not quiz). I'm assuming at some point I will also be assessing Khan Academy for reinforcement. Homeword for my DC's science class is 50% of the grade and you get 50% off if you do not turn it in in the beginning of class when the teacher walks around to collect it. I have not complained although my child's organizational skills are not the best and he has received numerous 50s when I know the homework was done because I checked it. It is teaching him maturity and responsibility.

I hope this helps the OP.

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09:54 the comment was not meant to be smug. I have found that you may think they are working on their homework, but they are often wasting time. I do not not to have to stand over DC like a prison warden to watch the studying, so I make sure the distractions are not accessible during study time.

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the second "not" is "want"

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PP-the comment is super smug, and not helpful-the first thing any parent whose kid takes a long time to get homework done is tot make sure there are no distractions, and I know NO ONE at Basis whose kid watches tv during the week. Labeling a parent a prison ward and telling them their kid is probably wasting time is just obnoxious.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here-while the pp is well intended, this advice does not work, I am afraid, at Basis-if one is "working ahead" in math like Basis parents suggest doing, studying/reviewing for the tests and quizzes and doing homework each night all for the following day and studying every day for tests and quizzes to come later during the week for concepts they have not yet gone over in class and where exact verbage is integral to doing well on said quiz or test, how on earth does this achieve anything? You are then spending more time on hw every night, not less, and DC is "guessing on what they need to know for the tests and quizzes that they are studying well in advance for, since the ideas for most of those tests and quizzes have not been introduced in full yet. The guessing and teaching oneself instead of reviewing notes means you are spending more-not less on homework, and probably learning things in ways other than how the teacher wants you to.

Actually the teachers do tell the children what the quizzes are on when they announce the quiz 5 days in advance and it would normally be the material that was covered up until that point of announcing the quiz and not new material. It typically would take my kid about 10 to 15 minutes to review material for quizzes. By reviewing material regularly especially on weekends and on low homework nights, it makes it much easier to study when quiz and test time comes around. My kid is not guessing what they need to know for tests and quizzes at all and the teachers have been very specific about. If you are having problems I suggest you meet with the teachers.

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The review my child receives prior to a test is given a day orvtwo before and gone over the day before. There is matrrial for some classes DC learns the day before a quiz. Not in math, but in some classes.