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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're not missing anything. The "good on paper" schools aren't the only ones with where good teaching and admin and positive school culture can happen! Just make a plan for MS if that's what's worrying you. [/quote]

OP. I guess I'm mostly worried about all the "turns out my kid wasn't learning much of anything/was desperately behind/we had to hire tutors" posts I see here from parents who sent their upper elementary students to similar-sounding schools. How do you get a sense of whether that's happening/will happen for your kid?[/quote]

I think it depends on your kid and the teachers they get in elementary. My son who ended up at BASIS was pushed very well by teachers up until 4th grade, when he had a terrible math teacher. I feel like it was a lost year, he really didn't learn anything new, math wise, and when I realized he wasn't learning any science, I bought a ton of books to catch him up. He also hardly learned to write in elementary, compared to what other kids learned at some other DCPS schools. He rose to the occasion at BASIS and is on par with the top kids, though he needed to learn how to work much, much harder. I wouldn't have waited longer than 5th or 6th grade to move him to a place with more challenge.[/quote]

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