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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Awesome is a stretch. Running without facilities, experienced coaches or a competitive program gets old for talented and driven kids who want more than a little fresh air, friendship and exercise on the National Mall. If you want serious extra curriculars, be prepared to foot the bill and do the legwork. If you want your MS or HS student to do Yale Certanum classics competitions, for example, be prepared to shoulder full costs for travel to competitions. Kids represent Basis for this and that competition without the school footing any of the bill. Before you enroll, you should know that Basis just isn't serious about extra curriculars and that parent input on the subject is irrelevant.[/quote]

BASIS parent of 5 years and who can't argue with this statement.

BASIS obviously doesn't offer serious sports w/out athletic facilities to speak of. If you want real competitive sports, music, drama, you look outside.

True, the most serious ECs are financed by families. The budget doesn't stretch far enough for the school to pay. That's the way it works.

One of the advantages of moving to the burbs is that ECs are much better. Slamming PPs who point this out isn't going to change it. [/quote]

I think some of the frustration at that pp is that no matter what the BASIS thread is about, some hardy perennial posters pop in to complain about the crap facilities and foreign language instruction. We knooooooooow[/quote]
This thread has offered a new family a bird's eye view of BASIS to help them hit the ground running.  It hasn't focused narrowly about how to help a child succeed academically in 5th grade.  I think that's a good thing.

We knooooooooooow that you love absolutely everything about BASIS.  [/quote]

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