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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If BASIS becomes an unhappy experience for a kid, is there no school counselor to help?  Do counselors only help kids with IEPs or what?[/quote]

There are resources for students. The staff in the Dean of Students office (~3) are first line of support for kids (and parents). If a child is overwhelmed with organization, they will do things like set up checkins and checkouts to help them develop a system to paper and work management, for example. The school psychologist mostly works with students with IEPs but is available to other students as well.

Every teacher holds student hours at least 1x per week after school and also by appointment. Kids can also take advantage of peer tutoring from older students or volunteers from Georgetown. Kids struggling academically are discussed and tracked closely by the grade level team and teachers brainstorm how to help them.

If a kid isn’t on track after these kind of interventions, they will begin an evaluation for learning issues.

Some of this is newer - last 2 or so years.

-Parent of 8th grader who needed much of the above [/quote]

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