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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The inconvenient truth is that elite STEM high schools in this country don't compel their top students to take AB and BC as a sequence.  That's not the way things work at TJ in Fairfax, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech, Talented and Gifted Dallas, top privates like Andover and Exeter etc. BASIS isn't a franchise run by educators, which sometimes shows.  And they wonder why they don't get more than 1 or 2 grads to Ivies and elite tech programs like MIT and Cal Tech annually. [/quote]

BASIS is not an elite STEM high school like the list of schools you provided.  [b]A kid destined for the Ivies or MIT is not going to be stopped because they took the AB the BC calculus sequence at BASIS.[/b]

Come back and complain / criticize once BASIS becomes a top test in HS.  Till then, please stop criticizing it.  [/quote]

I'll criticize what I like; you do the same. The sequence is a waste of time for the most advanced math students who could readily learn AB content in BC calc.  That's how calc has generally been taught in the strongest high schools around the country for two generations.

We had students in the BASIS middle school, so we know how their admins preaches the gospel of the franchise running elite STEM programs, to its to try to entice the most capable students to stay for HS. We also know how BASIS favors one-size-fits-all academic options that have a way of bogging down their most advanced students in elite college admissions. BASIS could aim higher for a particularly math savvy subset of high school students, but doesn't bother.[/quote]

Your comments are nothing but clutter. Basis isn’t TJ or Bronx Science. It has never claimed to be. And nothing in DC ever could be. DC is far too small. (Seriously. The total high school population of DC is only 10x the size of TJ.) And DC is far too close to TJ. People who feel as you do about the need for ultra-extreme math acceleration have long since moved to Virginia. [/quote]

Not the PP you're responding you sound like just another apologist for BASIS DC's boneheaded inflexibility and embarrassing high-handedness. Come on, admins start touting their fantastically accelerated math and MIT, Caltech and Ivy acceptances with the parents of 5th graders. I know this because I was one of them, recently.

BASIS peddles "ultra-extreme" math acceleration options to families, not the other way around. The inconvenient truth is that pointing out that it just isn't necessary for the most capable math students to take the AB-BC calculus sequence is eminently reasonable. That the problem is self-created by BASIS is a no-brainer.  [/quote]

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