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[quote=Anonymous]BASIS doesn't teach advanced languages before HS for no good reason I've ever been able to understand. They require bilingual students who may not be biliterate to study third languages from 7th grade, rather than giving them the option of focusing on become fully bilingual AND biliterate in the foreign language they already speak well. Alternatively, they encourage kids who arrive proficient or fluent in French, Chinese and Spanish to beginning classes in these languages with classmates who start at zero for scheduling purposes. Totally unreasonable. BASIS' approach to serving students who arrive with advanced proficiency or fluency in a second language is narrow-minded, short-sighted and paternalistic which non plusses bilingual families, encouraging them to leave. Raise the issues with admins and you're told you're free to find another school.[/quote]
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