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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi OP - do you think your child is struggling because of BASIS or because your outgoing school didn't prepare him for BASIS?  Or a combo of both?[/quote]

The Basis model fits better for highly organized students. My child is not that. We have had ADD and ADHD testing for the weakness in executive functioning skills but the diagnosis was negative. It is not an issue on paying attention, getting started or not understanding the content. That's not the difficulty. It is keeping up with the worksheets or how if you dont finish a worksheet then you cant take the test. It is having to rely on yourself to write down the homework in the CJ without being able to go to an online system like in previous years in case you lost the CJ or miswrote something. As a parent the lack of communication is tough. We have never been in a school where there werent built in parent teacher conference days in the calendar. We have also never had to try to coordinate meeting with the teacher through the front office and the teachers have diffferent parent hours on different days so for working parents trying to schedule multiple conferences it is tough. Not having a recess in addition to PE has been an adjustment as well as the lack of built in school activities. My child has always been motivated and enjoyed learning but it was also more experiential and hands on. There is no science text and DC is expected to take notes by listening to the lecture and copying drom what is on the board. I find that concept to be a higher grade skill than 5th. We would usually have met more parents to build a good social network by now but the way security is set up, you dont have those chance encounters with other parents like "hey my child is friends with yours lets try to meet up on Saturday". So I would say Basis is just not a good fit for our family. I dont think the previous school dropped the ball on preparation. [/quote]

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