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[quote] That's where the manipulation is. 
 BASIS has a small percentage of outstanding students who would do very well in any school -- in fact in bigger schools, they will be exposed to so much more, even in the sciences. 
 For the rest, BASIS decides which students/families are welcome to stay and which students need to leave -- thus the pre-comps/comps and the finals -- 2 exams which count for almost 2/3 of the whole year. 
 They want your family? the comps/final grades will be quite high. 
 A former BASIS parent once told me that seen printed certificates for the 90's club -- almost 3 weeks before the end of the quarter year and a week before the comps had even started. 
 The school doesn't want your student? The grades can be pretty good (all A's and B's throughout the year and nothing to worry about) but then the final report card comes and the overall grade is downgraded by 30-40%. It happened to my very hard working kid who was doing well at BASIS, or so we thought, until we were slapped by the F's...

So the policy is that with an "F" in the finals, the A's received throughout the year will become C's and the B's will be D's. All kinds of strange reasons will be given which are all based on opinion and cannot be measured. It would not make much difference in middle school but to obliterate a young person's high school GPA simply just because they can is outrageous. By the same token, there are students considered "brilliant" at BASIS, who would be considered average elsewhere. [/quote]

This is paranoid thinking.  My 7th grader is an absolutely average kid, who struggles sometimes with her schoolwork, and is never in the 90s club.  Grades are a reflection of classwork, and help is available if you ask for it.  I refuse to buy this idea of a conspiracy where grades are manipulated.  I've seen no evidence for it.  [/quote]

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