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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BASIS certainly would not allow this. IF (a very big IF) they did this, kid would have to repeat a grade. Their whole program is designed to build upon prior years. [/quote]

Because the kid couldn't possibly have learned a year's worth of knowledge at any other school in the whole wide world? Come on.[/quote]

Not a BASIS parent and have no interest in the school (I really value arts and language education, it's very much not for me), but the issue is not that a student can't learn "a year's worth of knowledge" but that BASIS has a very rigid and regimented academic program, especially along math and science progressions, and it is unlikely that a student's experience at a foreign school, even a great one, would meet the rigid expectations for passing up to the next level of math/physics/etc. BASIS is very testing focused and if you cannot pass the test, you will not advance.

It's not what I want but it IS what BASIS and it's families want, so I would find it strange for OP to try and lottery into BASIS and then leave the program in the middle and expect to come back with no repercussions. That program is the whole appeal of BASIS for people who want it. Either you are in or you are not.[/quote]

I just think it's weird for a school to think that nobody could ever catch up to their vewwy vewwy special vewwy specific program. It could not be more clear to me that BASIS' success is based on avoiding doing anything even slightly difficult.[/quote]

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