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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some parents seem quite happy to ignore how their children fail to thrive at BASIS. They don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, presumably to cling to their hip row houses-dwelling lives downtown.

I've seen this story play out many times, particularly with Ward 6 families with multiple siblings at BASIS.

We need far better public middle school options in this city.  We don't get them because city pols come under little pressure to deliver them.[/quote]

You seem upset. My kids both do quite well at BASIS, and I'm happy to have the option.

In addition, while I have a row house in Ward 6, it's not very hip.

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My kids knocked it out of the park at BASIS academically. We even kept up their Spanish immersion skills on the side.

We left just the same for a school with strong, autonomous leadership we had confidence in, a stable, experienced teaching faculty and much better humanities and language instruction. We were lucky to get good fi aid at a private from 8th grade. Happy is not a descriptor I'm buying in conjunction with BASIS after around 6th. [/quote]

BASIS is not as good as the private school you had to beg, borrow and steal to be able to afford, even with financial aid? Quite the revelation. To quote Usual Suspects, "You got a team of monkeys working round the clock on this?" [/quote]

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