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[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] Let's not forget the final exam which comes from Arizona being 50% of the final grade and the precomp exam in January being 50% of the 2nd trimester. So regardless of how students do throughout the year, two exams count for almost 58% of the whole year. There is absolutely no feedback on these exams to students making an otherwise A student end the year with a C or even a D and vice versa.[/quote]
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