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The full story is that BASIS ditched any kind of PE for 7th and 8th graders a few years back, then reinstated it as an elective after many parents complained. [b]Many kids can't work PE into their schedule[/b], and the offerings are so paltry that there's little appeal anyway.[/quote]

Bull.  They get an elective slot, and there are no requirements at all as to what they must take in that slot.  When you say that they "can't work PE into their schedule," what you mean is that they're choosing to take something other than PE, but are then whining that they can't also have PE.  You don't get to force everyone else to do PE simply because your child, when given an elective, would rather pick something other than PE.

This isn't much different from any other school.  Kids get a certain number of electives.  Many kids want to take more electives than the elective slots they have.  They must make choices and live with those choices.

Really, you people are ridiculous.  "BASIS is bad because it doesn't have a rooftop basketball court and my kid wanted it."   "BASIS is bad because my kid simply needs PE, but didn't want to choose it for his elective."  "BASIS is bad because my kid wasn't happy there, and thus no one is happy there."  "BASIS is bad because my kid likes browsing the school library, and they don't have one.  My kid and I are incapable of visiting public libraries, so the school simply must have a library."  (Not on this thread, but....) "BASIS is bad because I want immersion level foreign languages, and BASIS doesn't offer that.  I'm sorry that you feel like there's some sort of stigma about leaving BASIS, and the whole thing makes you insecure.  You need to get over it.    [/quote]

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