How to help child succeed at BASIS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly.

Inveterate BASIS MS boosters, please report back a few years hence.

My neighbor's kid graduated last year, and their family was very happy overall. They are the one of the big reasons we lotteried into BASIS in the first place.

+1. Posts claiming that MS parents don't yet realize how bad BASIS can be are so dumb. Half of BASIS comes from Cap Hill, and most Cap Hill parents know people who have kids in high school at BASIS. It isn't hard to figure out if the school is the right fit for your kid or not.

[Anonymous]

Who knows. CH parents generally want to stay there, so they make the best of BASIS. Zealously trying to jazz up the experience because you can't do any better by your children without moving to the burbs is silly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who knows. CH parents generally want to stay there, so they make the best of BASIS. Zealously trying to jazz up the experience because you can't do any better by your children without moving to the burbs is silly.

I assume you know you are clicking through a DC schools forum, right? We get it. You moved away from DC and you are so very desperate to prove to yourself that it wasn't a mistake that you feel the need to read forums on schools in a place you don't live.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. Posters like you are the equivalent of a guy who broke up with a girl but still follows her on FB and Instagram and tells everyone you know that you are TOTALLY over her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly.

Inveterate BASIS MS boosters, please report back a few years hence.

My neighbor's kid graduated last year, and their family was very happy overall. They are the one of the big reasons we lotteried into BASIS in the first place.

+1. Posts claiming that MS parents don't yet realize how bad BASIS can be are so dumb. Half of BASIS comes from Cap Hill, and most Cap Hill parents know people who have kids in high school at BASIS. It isn't hard to figure out if the school is the right fit for your kid or not.

+100 Posts claiming that MS parents don't yet realize how bad BASIS can be are so dumb. Kids are in MS for 4 years before they go to HS. It is a good fit for some kids and not for others. I won't sit here and suggest there is anything wrong with you or your kid if Basis wasn't a good fit. Why is it so hard for you to understand that while it might not be a good fit for your kid it might be for another kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who knows. CH parents generally want to stay there, so they make the best of BASIS. Zealously trying to jazz up the experience because you can't do any better by your children without moving to the burbs is silly.

I assume you know you are clicking through a DC schools forum, right? We get it. You moved away from DC and you are so very desperate to prove to yourself that it wasn't a mistake that you feel the need to read forums on schools in a place you don't live.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. Posters like you are the equivalent of a guy who broke up with a girl but still follows her on FB and Instagram and tells everyone you know that you are TOTALLY over her.

You must be thinking of a different poster. As I've already said, we've stayed at BASIS, my eldest is graduating, heading to a college admitting in the single digits in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who knows. CH parents generally want to stay there, so they make the best of BASIS. Zealously trying to jazz up the experience because you can't do any better by your children without moving to the burbs is silly.

I assume you know you are clicking through a DC schools forum, right? We get it. You moved away from DC and you are so very desperate to prove to yourself that it wasn't a mistake that you feel the need to read forums on schools in a place you don't live.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. Posters like you are the equivalent of a guy who broke up with a girl but still follows her on FB and Instagram and tells everyone you know that you are TOTALLY over her.

You must be thinking of a different poster. As I've already said, we've stayed at BASIS, my eldest is graduating, heading to a college admitting in the single digits in the fall.

Sounds like your kid would have gone to a better college if you had left Basis and gone to the burbs.

[Anonymous]

Does BASIS have a guidance counselor (or similar designated person) to ensure the mental/emotional well being of the students? If so, how effective has this person been with ensuring students succeed at BASIS?

[Anonymous]

Yes, but the counselor isn’t a powerful player in the not so subtle BASIS game to weed out academic stragglers, starting after 6th grade comp results come out. If admins and teachers want your kid gone, the counselor can’t necessarily do much to help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does BASIS have a guidance counselor (or similar designated person) to ensure the mental/emotional well being of the students? If so, how effective has this person been with ensuring students succeed at BASIS?

Yes, the counselor is very helpful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, but the counselor isn’t a powerful player in the not so subtle BASIS game to weed out academic stragglers, starting after 6th grade comp results come out. If admins and teachers want your kid gone, the counselor can’t necessarily do much to help.

What PP means is, their kid couldn't hack it academically and when they failed their comps and were told they needed to repeat the grade (which they are always able to do) because Basis won't socially promote, PP got mad, moved their kid and started blaming everyone but themselves. Apparently it is the counselor's fault their kid couldn't hack it. Now, even removed from that experience, PP can't acknowledge their parenting failure because the knew damn well, as do all Basis families, that there is a comp exam every year starting in 6th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who knows. CH parents generally want to stay there, so they make the best of BASIS. Zealously trying to jazz up the experience because you can't do any better by your children without moving to the burbs is silly.

I assume you know you are clicking through a DC schools forum, right? We get it. You moved away from DC and you are so very desperate to prove to yourself that it wasn't a mistake that you feel the need to read forums on schools in a place you don't live.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. Posters like you are the equivalent of a guy who broke up with a girl but still follows her on FB and Instagram and tells everyone you know that you are TOTALLY over her.

You must be thinking of a different poster. As I've already said, we've stayed at BASIS, my eldest is graduating, heading to a college admitting in the single digits in the fall.

Sounds like your kid would have gone to a better college if you had left Basis and gone to the burbs.

Totally. But for their selfishness in staying in DC and at Basis their kid could have cured cancer by now.

[Anonymous]

Wow, this thread is depressing.

[Anonymous]

The PP was just being sarcastic.

Some parent who stayed at Basis was complaining about the school but bragging that his/her kid was selected to a college that only admits in the single digits. Gee, it sounds like maybe your kid actually did obtain a good education at Basis...

You can put this in the same category as the posters who bash Basis but also claim that there kid was a straight A student, took Calc BC in 8th grade, and the like.

If you don't like the school, just go elsewhere. And then tout your kids' supposed genius in some other thread. Plenty of students at Basis are happy there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The PP was just being sarcastic.

Some parent who stayed at Basis was complaining about the school but bragging that his/her kid was selected to a college that only admits in the single digits. Gee, it sounds like maybe your kid actually did obtain a good education at Basis...

You can put this in the same category as the posters who bash Basis but also claim that there kid was a straight A student, took Calc BC in 8th grade, and the like.

If you don't like the school, just go elsewhere. And then tout your kids' supposed genius in some other thread. Plenty of students at Basis are happy there.

*their kid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, but the counselor isn’t a powerful player in the not so subtle BASIS game to weed out academic stragglers, starting after 6th grade comp results come out. If admins and teachers want your kid gone, the counselor can’t necessarily do much to help.

What PP means is, their kid couldn't hack it academically and when they failed their comps and were told they needed to repeat the grade (which they are always able to do) because Basis won't socially promote, PP got mad, moved their kid and started blaming everyone but themselves. Apparently it is the counselor's fault their kid couldn't hack it. Now, even removed from that experience, PP can't acknowledge their parenting failure because the knew damn well, as do all Basis families, that there is a comp exam every year starting in 6th.

Psycho babble nonsense, PP. I posted about the counselor's role.

My kid made 90s Club from the get go and passed comps before moving on to a different HS. A few of classmates failed comps, were instructed to repeat a grade to stay, then left. These kids weren't treated well by admins before their families bailed, which I considered shameful. Admins want no more than around 50% of the MS students back for HS. That's the BASIS franchise's model wherever they operate.