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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fair point that there is no “BASIS way,” at least not one that’s set in stone. I got disillusioned with this head when he wouldn’t let parents of Spanish immersion grads organize low cost after-school language maintenance lessons on campus, or offer these kids remotely challenging 8th grade Spanish. That wasn’t about education or college admissions on the part of the HoS, it was about control.  Parents come to DCUM to raise issues for the simple reason that the BASIS DC will not tolerate a PTA. [/quote]

You post the same thing in every BASIS thread and it’s a very weird and pretty stupid criticism. Stick with the immersion track if you’re so obsessed with language.  [/quote]

+1 Another bilingual genius who sent their kid to a science and math heavy school with limited foreign language focus and now gets all hot and bothered because the school won't change its curriculum for him. [/quote]

Honestly, shut up. We all know where the push comes from. It comes from the two or three dozen BASIS 5th grade families where the kids went to LAMB, Mundo Verde, Tyler Spanish or DC Bilingual where IB schools were crappy.

If BASIS were run by genius educators, instead of Olga and Michael Block--non-educators--they'd rush to help these DC families keep the Spanish rolling cheaply. They do it so these kids could easily score 5s on AP Spanish as early as 8th grade. This would be a v. low cost approach to bumping up the program's AP results (the point of BASIS).[/quote]

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