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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP above is making a valid point that you guys don't want to deal with.

BASIS DC is an ultra-conservative school academically built on a limited AP curriculum--they teach about half of the 32 AP subjects--run by admins chosen by franchise leaders in Arizona. The franchise runs off a hidebound formula for elite college admissions which is almost military in they way it's implemented. Deviate openly from the narrow BASIS AP success path and your family will no longer be welcome in high school. If the BASIS approach works for your family, fantastic.

For example, if the kid wants to study an "obscure" or "exotic" language, like Japanese (AP language), Russian or Arabic, or to prep for Cambridge Islamic Studies or Marine Biology exams, BASIS admins will discourage the kid. [/quote]

I'm not saying this isn't true, it just seems like a very specific criticism that isn't very relevant to a big group of parents, given that the other places we'd send our kids mostly have the same issues. In the category of "criticisms of BASIS", the building, pressure, and extracurricular limitations are a lot more relevant to me as the parent of a fourth grader because those are things I actually can do better for  my kid somewhere else (at the cost of missing out on the things BASIS does better than those other schools.) [/quote]

Specific criticism or acknowledgement of a limiting overarching philosophy/world view? Yes, most BASIS DC parents are happy to roll with admins' narrow-mindedness and outdated thinking about elite college admissions.  Fact is, the franchise still meets with reasonable success doing what they're doing.[/quote]

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