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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]18:48, Your same "stress" and "workaholic" concern can just as easily be suggested of many of the privates, public magnets and charters.  And, as they go into adult life pressures only continue in much of the working world.

So, what's the conclusion here - just blissful denial and cheerfully think it can just be avoided altogether, maybe our kids can just go to a non-demanding school that never gets beyond basic math, and get a job flipping burgers and kicking back on the beach, never having to work hard, or accept the reality of modern life and work on developing and instilling coping mechanisms and life skills for dealing with it? [/quote]

If "it" is workaholism" then yes, I'd say it can and should be avoided altogether!  Every school will have its own level of rigor, and every student will have their own limits as to what they can handle, but no other school I am aware of (except perhaps military academies) explicitly adopts "workaholism" as the guiding philosophy. And I think for good reason.

More generally, I'd say the conclusion here is that each family, considering the totality of the circumstances, needs to make the best choice they can regarding education among some pretty slim pickings in the public school aisle. All the views expressed in this thread I believe and hope will help families in their decision-making process. My reservations about the BASIS Tucson model for all but the most unusually (and perhaps even unhealthily) test-driven kids are based on comparison with my own experience at a private high school, an ivy league college, and top 15 law school, my casual acquaintance with Olga Block and her modus operandi, and my conversations with a number of teachers and parents at the Tucson campus with whom I am friends and students (past and present) I have met through their parents.[/quote]

I should add that even with my extreme reservations, we still have our child in 5th grade at BASIS Tucson for lack of better alternatives. But boy are we looking! [/quote]

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