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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s great to hear that some of the extra curricular activities at BASIS are fun and successful.   The way we see things right now is that if we enroll at BASIS we may need to supplement certain extra curricular activities related to sports and music, but that would actually not be any different than how we currently have our activities independent from the school setting.  It seems easier to supplement extra curricular activities than to supplement core academic subjects. [b]It’s less easy to supplement foreign language skills but if the school will provide a family directory, as a PP mentioned, there may be an opportunity to collaborate with other families in the same boat, even if it must be done entirely independently from the school. [/b] It’s interesting that students pay a fee to attend the summer BOSS program and someone else mentioned that the school doesn’t provide payment for competitions.  I am wondering what can families expect in terms of how many costs they will incur over the school year?[/quote]

What you're going to pay all depends on what you're trying to achieve through outside enrichment and achievement of course. Some families pay hundreds per school year, we paid thousands. Immersion families at BASIS commonly arrive determined to supplement foreign language skills. But without support or encouragement from admins, flexibility in the curriculum or appropriate classes and a demanding science and math-focused curriculum from the get go (with the expectation that at least six AP exams will be taken by the end of junior year in HS with scores of 4 or 5), they run out of steam. BASIS language teachers may offer immersion grads who've kept up with a language tougher assignments than beginning students, but you can't expect this. What's going to happen if you supplement is that your kid will either land in language classes that are ridiculously easy, years behind their level of achievement, or they'll start a new language from 8th grade, with little time or incentive to keep up with language #1. Supplementing starts to seem both pointless, particularly if your kid isn't a math whiz and you're going to stay at BASIS for HS. Students aren't encouraged to take AP language exams in 8th or 9th grade with a view to scoring high (which many immersion grads could easily do with encouragement). In our experience, half the battle at is embracing the mindset of BASIS knows best, march in step with other students. If you're a contrarian who can't adjust, you leave or become unhappy.[/quote]

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