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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. That hardly connotes 'trashing' and the PP sounds pretty insufferable.

Why even engage?[/quote]

Another NP.  I actually found the reference to deal very helpful as a basis parent. Understanding why someone left and how green the pastures are is very relevant to perspective.[/quote]

I know 2 in-boundary Deal families who bailed on BASIS for Deal over the summer, one after 6th grade the other after 7th. The parents reported that the commute to BASIS was no longer worth it.  They talk about how their family life had gone too far downhill in the face of excessive homework and the hassle of arranging appealing extra curricular activities outside of school.

What they say they don't like about Deal is the crowding, an International Baccalaureate Middle Years curriculum that isn't supported at Wilson up the chain, and insufficient humanities challenge, because Deal only tracks for math.  They complain about how at Deal, kids who can read at the high school level wind up in the same social studies and English classes as kids who read at an elementary school level.  They miss the STEM challenge at BASIS, so find other avenues to pour it on, through school break camps, tutors etc.

Translation - their children are too brilliant to be with the less brilliant, and “pour it on” to ensure that their precious angels can make it in the Ivy League and avoid a life of being ordinary.  I don’t see how in this scenario their lives are any different - same stressed out kids but this time from their parents.

These parents don't trash BASIS or Deal - they state the obvious, folks.[/quote][/quote]

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