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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]common core is the opposite of drill and kill[/quote]

BASIS is drill and kill for common core.  Hours and hours of worksheets every night.  My kids don't go to BASIS, but there are kids in our neighborhood in DC who go there, and everyone (especially kids) feel sorry for them. Sad.

And of course, Basis has nothing in common with a school like Potomac that fosters independent thought and critical discussions as class.[/quote]

I don't know whether BASIS is "drill and kill" or not, but I completely agree with this poster that BASIS DC seems to be the source of a lot of misery for a lot of kids and families.  I live on Capitol Hill and have long coached a couple of rec teams there, along with having my own kids in a private. I cringe every time that a parent says that their child is headed to BASIS.  What happens next is the kid drops out of sports and other community activities, along with the parents, so they can dedicate themselves fully to keeping up with homework. After that, one of two things happen.  The "successful" kids stay in for a few years and seem unhappy any time you see them, and the parents complain about the never ending work and stress.  And the rest of the kids (seem like most of the kids, but I don't know for sure) drop out of BASIS.  Some of those kids are dropping out in October or November, and then stuck with whatever happens to be the neighborhood public school, having lost a shot at any other charter or out of bounds public (and of course, now even more disadvantaged in getting into a private.  Of course, it doesn't have to be this way---far fewer complaints like this about Washington Latin and no complaints like this about Two Rivers.  But BASIS is a special case. I certainly wouldn't use my own money to put my child through it.[/quote]

One last thing that is really odd--the head of school at BASIS DC is barely 30, and got his master's degree from for-profit University of Phoenix.[/quote]

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