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What does that get us?  Little automatons that can test out of the first year survey courses at Maryland?  What is the goal?  Knowledge and the desire to pursue education?  Or just college credits?  Obviously these aren't the well-rounded students that highly-respected universities desire.  Is the point of creating these little robots simply to avoid a year's worth of college tuition?

Maybe we should be discussing college tuition.  How is it sensible that the cost-of-living index can rise at 1 - 2% per year, and yet college tuition rises 10 - 12% per year?  (Student loans - which schools then factor into their budgets and tuition, and it allows them to never cut costs.  If you want to see the tuition start to align with reality, then some departments & administrators need to be let go.  But, however obvious this is it is still an argument for another thread.

In the meantime, little Basis robots are not going to be prized at highly selective universities.  
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My kid, the one who does homework in the higher range of time spent is [b]not [/b]having an automaton experience at all at Basis. My DC is literally joyful and beaming whenever I bring him to school or pick him up from school. My DC recounts daily all of the fun learning activities he has done at school. Of course, there has been a lot of content taught in creative ways in his classes, but there is also time for discussion and other activities as well.

Teaching content is a good thing. Many schools lack in teaching actual content, and, hence, we end up with many people in America who lack basic knowledge in many areas. Just watch Jay Leno when he walks the street!!![/quote]

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