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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do, because our future BASIS seniors will be competing with plenty of Boston Latin students, and their high octane urban public school ilk around the country, when applying to college.  I hear DC parents of academic high fliers in public school claim that we will able to play the elite college admissions game on our own terms.  This is because our public school system is unusually troubled, and our kids are way ahead of the pack.  I doubt it.

I wish that BASIS were much less interested in weeding kids out, but then my kid is bright and hard-working and I'm hard up for a public middle school, so I take what I can get.

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My kid is bright and hard working and loved learning and school, then he spent a few years at Basis. Notice how I said loved...not leaving the building in 3 years combined with the copious amounts of homework helped to kill  our child's enthusiasm.  Now we are are working to mitigate the damage. In theory, I support their model of education. However, the devil in the details and I find the execution lacking.[/quote]

ditto.  The assumption that ultimately only the 25 kids who graduate could cut it is ridiculous.  The reality is that many of the kids who are cutting it don't want to.  So a lot of the high fliers leave as well, and as more and more friends leave, and you end up with a bunch of nasty competitive kids left, the healthiest thing to do in high school may be to leave.

Listen to your children and do the right thing for them as individuals.  Who cares if they ultimately get 25 kids into college and some into great colleges.  Think about all the spirits they crushed to get there, including some of the graduates who will be going from BASIS to Harvard.[/quote]

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