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[quote=Anonymous]You disagree with posters, so their posts are "nonsense." The upper school curriculum is not in fact "irrelevant" to your kid in 5th and 6th, because those are the two years when BASIS puts 11 and 12 year-olds on the Road to Damascus. Most BASIS families drink the Kool-Aid to embrace their warped variant of competitive college admissions involving a great deal of premature AP work.

My arts-minded "snowflake" is a person of color. We left BASIS because he was bouncing off the walls without fresh air, green space and real performance spaces. Making 90s Club mainly by doing HW efficiently didn't render the program a healthy experience for him.

We switched to our in-boundary DCPS and began paying a couple tutors and sending him to enrichment camps to add challenge. We haven't made things easier for him in middle school, we've made them healthier and more humane. The switch was not ideal--our in-boundary middle school works out to be more expensive than BASIS, since we pay to add rigor.  Worth it.[/quote]

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