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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]This post crystallizes a major problem that I see with Basis and its school culture. [/b] If ANY child struggles in any respect, it is ALWAYS claimed to be predominantly the child’s fault (or the child’s family for failing to appreciate or overlooking that the school might be a poor fit).  In some other contexts, that would be called gaslighting.[/quote]

It also crystalizes toxic BASIS exceptionalism.

Shock! My kid also requiring tutoring, for writing and a foreign language, [b]after we went on to a parochial high school[/b]. This happened despite his high BASIS GPA for 5th-8th. The middle school writing instruction he'd had at BASIS wasn't up to the standards of his new school, not even close. His language skills weren't nearly good enough either, since his new classmates had started studying the language no later than 6th grade.

Declaring BASIS to be the most fantastic and highest ranked DC high school ad nauseam on these threads in DC only goes so far in papering over the cracks.[/quote]

Parochial schools are known to have strong writing classes, especially compared to public schools. I think it would say more about Basis if you were comparing it against another public school. And no one is saying DC is the highest ranked DC high school. It's a PUBLIC school and as compared to other PUBLIC schools in DC it does pretty well.[/quote]

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