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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I won't say? Blessed Sacrament in Chevy Chase NW though we're not Catholic.

12K, worth it for much better humanities instruction, stable faculty, active parent organization, good facilities and electives, language instruction from 4th grade, sports and music programs. STEM not as good, but we can live with that.[/quote]

What will you do for high school?  More parochial?[/quote]

Keep an open mind. Apply to Walls and Banneker, possibly rent IB for JR.  We'll apply to a few parochial schools charging in the low 20s, all we can afford.

We didn't care for the controlling, top down feel of BASIS: the franchise way or the highway. Parochial school has been a breath of fresh air by comparison, although we're protestant and not v. religious. Teachers and administrators are more with-it, meaning better classroom management. The curriculum is richer and more open, with a stronger intellectual bent. [/quote]

Controlling?  Sounds like this is more about you than your kid.[/quote]

Maybe, but my kid likes his new school much better. He likes having more of a say in what he learns. [/quote]
Do you have examples of what choices your son was missing, and the ways the rigidity was bothering him at BASIS?[/quote]

Sorry, I don't. No point in being slammed by BASIS adherents going forward. Suffice it say that we're a bilingual family that's grateful for how our kid's new school values his bilingualism, not the case at BASIS. We didn't care for the BASIS focus on AP test prep, marching in step academically, grade competition and college admissions from the middle school years.  There weren't enough Eureka moments for us, not enough emphasis on joy of learning. I've been surprised and pleased by how much more open-minded and, frankly, fun and welcoming, the Blessed Sacrament vibe has been. Good luck to those who stick with BASIS.[/quote]

Those are all valid things to want from a school. No BASIS parent would quibble. But you chose a school that offers the polar opposite of what you wanted from a school. There was no bait and switch. BASIS does not excel in languages and they are not open to accommodating families that want them to. That goes for bilingual and English only speakers alike. BASIS proudly boasts about the number of AP exams every kid has to take to graduate. You may not think it is useful or a positive thing, but that's how BASIS structures the curriculum.

You remind me of a person who writes a review of a restaurant called "Bob's House of Beef and Meat Products" and complains that the menu was filled with mostly meat options when what you wanted was sushi and farm to table veggie entrees. The issue is not that sushi isn't delicious or that you don't have the right to want those things, but you walked into a restaurant that was all about meat and complained that they didn't change their menu to your tastes. Worse still, then you carry a grudge and loudly complain about how inflexible they were. No introspection or moment of ownership that the poor choice you made may have contributed to the poor outcome.

I'm pleased you found a school that met your needs. Good for you.      [/quote]

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