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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is at BASIS.  I would not make the decision about whether to go to BASIS on the building, but I find it depressing, dark, and somewhat cramped-feeling.

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I just toured Basis last month.  I made the decision not to consider it because of the building.  IMO, the good academics just can’t compensate enough for the terrible facilities.

I realize we are privileged in that we have other options while some families don’t.  [/quote]

They can take your clothes, they can take your riches, they can even take your freedom, but one thing they cannot take is your education. I'll go for the academics. You can't take the pretty buildings and manicured lawns with you but your knowledge and skills will travel with you everywhere. This famous quote comes from my mother.[/quote] if the education at BASIS were worth missing out on much in way of natural light for 8 years, I’d agree  with your mother 100%. We weren’t impressed impressed by at least half of my kid’s classes in 5th and 6th grades, along with the ban on modern language instruction until 8th and along with the requirement that students learn languages at the beginning level (some sort of 80s throwback). We hired an English tutor to ensure that our kid wrote weekly essays that were corrected. His parochial doesn’t require [b]half as much memorization[/b] but offers a much better/livelier education overall. But if DCPS is your only viable alternative,sure, BASIS is terrific.[/quote]

If this is the end result of not requiring a little "memorization" ( https://www.thefp.com/p/dishonor-code-what-happens-when-cheating) I will take BASIS!  Seriously - learning new things takes memorization/hard work.  No other way to go about it.  (of course should be combined with discussion/explanation, etc, but first you need to know key concepts/facts to even have the discussin!)[/quote]

No one said you don’t need to memorize some basic things.  People are saying that there is too much emphasis on memorization.  The 2 are not the same at all.

Some kids will slog thru and spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to memorize everything.  This works for some.  Other kids will memorize the basics but are better at critical thinking and figuring things out.  This latter requires a significant less amount of time.

This division of how kids approach learning is most apparent in my medical school and medical school in general. Way too much information to memorize everything.  Some kids would skip all classes and just spend 8-10 hours a day trying to memorize everything, I kid you not. Even with this, you could not memorize it all.  My good friend was like this.

I went to all the classes, actively assimilated the topic as the professor was lecturing and spent 1/10th the time memorializing and reviewing things.  I was good at figuring things out.

Guess who had fun in med school and who had no life.  FWIW, I did find and graduated in the top 10% of my class.[/quote]

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