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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are also open, by the way, about th fact that around 10 percent of the kids do not pass their comps at the end of the year and actually cannot return (without repeating the grade). The admin said that most of these kids do not return, so Definitely lots of the attrition is coming from that. It's the only public school in DC that doesn't do social promotion, and their curriculum is very accelerated on top of that.[/quote]

I wish people in this thread would stop characterizing BASIS middle school as being “very accelerated.”  It’s not. The math is completely normal for middle school. The science, while split into three classes (that only meet a couple times a week) is the same core science that is taught in middle school.[/quote]

That is simply not true. They take Algebra 1/geometry in 7th, and Algebra 2/Geometry in 8th, and then take precalc in 9th. There are kids doing that in DC, but they have tested out of the highest level at their DCOS and it is an exception. To expect that of everyone at the school is highly unusual.[/quote]

When I was in a gifted program 30 years ago, we took Alg 1 in 7th grade. It was definitely not the normal track.[/quote]

I think it's important that prospective parents understand the track properly... Thinking it is "just normal math" is why so many students end up feeling unhappy and stressed out and leaving. It's not a brag about BASIS, but conveying facts that are helpful when deciding whether or not to enroll.[/quote]

Assuming you have a child in the school older than 5th grade, go pull up a course description for any of the suburban high schools and compare what they're learning in 6th, 7th, 8th grade.  It's all the same material that BASIS is teaching. [/quote]

You mean like this? Here is the curriculum for Fairfax county schools, grade 7 math:
https://www.fcps.edu/academics/middle/mathematics/grade-7
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Thanks for this. Can you please tell me how I can enroll my kid there as a DC resident? [/quote]

Nobody is telling you to enroll there. They’re telling you to stop gaslighting people about BASIS being incredibly advanced. [/quote]

Weird response. Why are you in a DC schools forum telling us about schools not in DC? No one is choosing between BASIS and Exeter or Bronx Science of Boston Latin or FCPS.

Serious question: What did BASIS do to you that makes you this way? I am not as invested in my job or my kids' schools as you are in you are in continuing to make this same silly point.[/quote]

NP with no kids at Basis but you don’t have to just compare to DC.

It’s a fuse point that Basis is not advance in this area.  It just is not.

The problem is not comparing it to your typical suburban school.  [b]The problem is that in DC the kids are failing and so far behind and not even in grade level that [/b]Basis as compared to that is advance but get out of your low expectation bubble of DC in the real competitive world and it’s average [/quote]

Absolutely true that DC schools are failing kids. The vast majority of kids coming out of DC schools are not prepared for college and will not graduate, even if they get in. BASIS is one school, yes, a deeply weird one, that actually does challenge kids and prepare them for college.[/quote]

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