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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come on, anybody who's been at BASIS for 6, 7, 8 years knows what's being alluded to here. BASIS picks it horses early on, the math stars, kids with a good shot of cracking Ivies, MIT etc. Other students aren't treated as well over time. Their parents aren't inclined to rock the boat. That's the reality.[/quote]

Yes, it is the only way to create a gifted school within the system.  The school can’t screen beforehand.  It is up to the parents to determine if it will be a good fit for the kid.   If it isn’t, it isn’t.  But of course this should be communicated clearly and humanely as early as possible.  In the end though, if the parents can’t see that it is a bad fit for the kid, the kid suffers longer.   This is a school for a certain type of kid.  Please just accept that and stop complaining that your kid would do better in a different system and get that kid in a different system asap. Fully neglectful to keep a kid there if it isn’t the right fit, and unfortunately there are a lot of parents who refuse to accept their responsibility to choose. [/quote]

The parents of which you speak keep their kids at BASIS because their IB schools have entire classes below grade level. What they are demanding is that BASIS be at or above grade level, but not too far above that they feel like they are being forced out. If only the school would adjust precisely to their needs and modulate downward to their preference all would be well.  [/quote]

The problem would be easily avoided if Basis were permitted to apply a test screen on the front end. I get that many families are in tough spot given their IB alternatives, but the idea that it should “adjust” even slightly downward for the families that affirmatively choose
the school is just wrong.  Now - if I were in control of Basis, I might move to a bit of a Basis-lite model, but with full knowledge that it effectively shortchanges a critical mass of high-fliers. We don’t really have choices, so much as trade offs. [/quote]

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