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The kids that have left are so much happier and well-adjusted, have tons of friends, and are doing well academically in their new schools. They find school to be a fun and balanced place to learn, as well as to grow physically and socially without the dreaded surprise of failing a class during the last week of school. [/quote]

[b]Very revealing -- you have no clue.  My child is one of the 7th graders who left despite all was going very well and learning was exciting and fast-paced.  None of those things are true where my child is now, and I rue the day we left for private.  Basis will not take back students who have left.  [/b][/quote]

Thank you so much for your post.

As a parent at BASIS who is constantly wondering if we are doing our children a disservice by not enrolling them in private school, it is wonderful to hear from someone who actually made the move.  We have had some kids come from private school and who are happy here, including top privates like GDS.

But the grass is always greener and the pull of an established private school (especially because some of our peers with kids in private think we are batshit crazy and parents are offering to pay) is hard to resist.  Like you, we have kids who are doing well and excited by the fast paced rate of learning and the opportunities for acceleration in math, which they have taken full advantage of............

It takes a great deal of courage to come onto a thread like this and reassure those of us who have refused to make the leap to private despite peer and parental pressure.  We still think the quality of the education in an increasingly small environment is what is causing our older kid to thrive.  Younger child so still in a large cohort, but obsessed with Distinguished Honor Roll and has not yet failed to make the cut.  Will hate it when she doesn't, but know that it happens to almost every student and since grades are cumulative sometimes the climb back up is difficult.... [/quote]

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