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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What you can't get at BASIS, OP, are serious extra-curriculars your kid does with classmates. This didn't bother us in 5th grade, but really bothered my kids from around 7th grade. We were running all over town for lonely outside enrichment done with kids mine barely knew.

The sports at BASIS aren't too serious and there's obviously no theater for "theater," no music whatsoever, no kiln for pottery, no track for track, no greenhouse for gardening etc. etc. [/quote]

I think the enrichment, clubs, sports etc aspect of a school are overrated. So what if BASIS doesn't have a kiln. It has sports and clubs. Mind you, there are only 450 students in grades 5 - 8 compared to 1,500 at Deal MS. It's a bit like parents saying DC is fabulous for what it has to offer but then never visit a museum, gallery or performance in more than a month. [/quote]

And you've had kids at BASIS for how long? From where I sit, the problem with BASIS' weak ECs is that the set-up favors the UMC kids, and that's putting it mildly. You wind up paying through the nose for the ECs your kid probably needs to crack a highly competitive colleges. It can be a lonely, hectic journey because your student can't do serious high school ECs with classmates, at least not for sports, music, drama etc. You wind up rushing around the DMV as a family to fill in the gaps. Also, the way BASIS structures its curriculum doesn't leave much time for serious high school ECs, not when they're essentially cramming 3 years of HS into 4.  We wound up leaving after 9th grade for our eldest, strong in STEM, because hated the arrangement. Sure, maybe ECs are overrated in the big picture, but that doesn't change the fact that colleges want to see them and kids really enjoy them.  [/quote]

NP but don’t most kids who do serious ECs do them outside of thr school anyway? Serious music kids do orchestra elsewhere, kids who want to play a sport in college often play on club or travel teams, etc.[/quote]

Totally this. [/quote]

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