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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our DC is in the upper school at BASIS and has been doing well.  For sure it's been a lot of work.  5th wasn't bad but it ramped up considerably over the next couple of years but surprisingly now DC has less homework than in previous years despite having a pretty big number of AP courses.  I think those first couple of years laid down a good foundation and DC built up organizational skills and self discipline along with getting a good handle on essay writing and mechanics of AP testing.  We honestly don't know what good alternative there'd be.  We know a few families that left for Walls, but there are distinctly mixed reviews there - in many cases, Walls actually had kids going backward and retaking stuff they had already mastered which bewildered and frustrated families, I suspect because Walls can't really support accelerated students.
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At least in math, some of those Basis students transferring to Walls are reTaking classes because they couldn’t perform on the placement tests.  Perhaps basis taught it too fast, too young and the material wasn’t retained.[/quote]

Good thing the BASIS students are required to take AP calc AB and BC to prove what they don’t know  :roll:

Why does SWW farm all their higher performing math students out to GW? Many have had the superior DCPS math curriculum. . .[/quote]

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