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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's just so weird what people say about BASIS. Like if anyone's below grade level in the whole school (after 5th anyway), then there isn't and can't possibly be "rigor" for anyone? What a weird thing to think and say.[/quote]

No school can be everything for everyone.  If a kid at Basis is below grade level, one of three things can happen:
A.  The kid will continue struggling and failing classes.  The kid will likely have to attend student hours every day, and they still won't be able to hack it.  After the kid figures out that they're not going to be able to pass, then the kid starts disrupting everyone else.  Eventually, the kid fails out of the program.  In math, especially, the kid was stuck getting pushed ahead into classes that they didn't understand, and failed to gain proper foundations.  This is usually what happens when kids who are close to failing do the summer packets/retests and manage to move to the next grade.  It would be an even bigger disaster if they socially promoted the kids who can't even manage to pass after all of that.

B.  The kid gets extensive tutoring and attends student hours every day, and somehow turns things around.  This is very rare.

C.  Basis has to water down the program to accommodate the kids who can't handle the rigor.

A is cruel.  B is exceedingly rare.  C would ruin Basis for all of the kids who need the rigor.  [/quote]

I'm unclear why accommodations for a few kids would "ruin it" for everyone. Can BASIS teachers not handle it? [b]BASIS offers a great many different classes at different levels[/b] so what's one or two more?[/quote]

The bolded is incorrect.  From 5th-8th grade, there is only one instructional level for the entire grade, with the exception of a very few kids who are bumped up for math.  Lower level classes are not offered.  In the high school level, there are very limited opportunities for different levels.  All Basis 7th graders take the same level of English, History, and science classes.  Almost all of them are taking Algebra I, with a few kids taking Algebra II or pre-calc.  In 9th grade, all kids are taking 2nd year of their foreign language, AP Government, Honors English, some honors science.  All kids must at least be in pre-calc.  I don't know why you had the idea that Basis offered different classes at different levels, and thus could accommodate remedial classes.  They do not do so.  [/quote]

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