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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two kids at Basis (both in middle school).

One completes all of her homework during the school day with little effort.  She’s been extremely happy this year (though there’s one class with teacher turnover that she complains about).

My other child stresses more about the workload, but still manages to spend a lot of time doing video games and watching TV each evening, plus there’s almost never homework on weekends.

Both kids have stellar grades.

The school is far from perfect, but OP’s posting does not resonate with our family.[/quote]

This is my family's experience, too.

Everyone knows that kids who succeed at Basis need to be smart and motivated.  What a lot of people don't seem to know is that the kids who tend to be fast workers will be much more successful than the  equally bright kids who just tend to work a bit slower.  Homework loads can range from 20 minutes/day(my kids) - 4 hours/day depending on your child's efficiency.  [/quote]

I don’t understand how that can be true. There’s a massibe difference between 20 minutes and 4 hours. [/quote]

some kids are just faster. Think back to elementary- do you remember the kids who would finish the math test in a fraction of the time of most kids and still get As? Basis is designed for those kids [/quote]

A little faster, but not 12x faster.  [/quote]

NP here.  As explained above, they don’t need to be 12x faster to do homework in 20 minutes.  It is rare that my seventh grader (with near perfect grades) does any work past 4:30.  She is organized and on task during the day.  There are almost no communications between us, other than basically me shoving food at her.  She does talk to her friends and watches some tv in the background during the day, which I don’t ever object to as she is happy and why fix what is not broken, but she is completely on task.  I follow her team chats with her teachers, and she is on top of everything.  If she has a question, she immediately asks the teacher, who almost always responds instantly.  She plows through so much work during the day that I can’t even conceive of me being involved in any way.  If I were, or if she ever got behind, it would most certainly slow down the process considerably, which would be awful given how long it takes to make up a day when she has to miss (extremely rare), many many hours.

As another view, I have a neighbor friend whose kid does not fit the basis mold at all and is in 5th grade with very little supervision.  He was failing in the first grading period, but they assigned him a teacher who is alone with him virtually for a lot of the day, and now he is getting mostly Bs.  This is still the wrong fit, but I’ve been very impressed by what they have been doing remotely for this struggling child.  [/quote]

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