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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, let's change the narrative. My BASIS student earned straight As for 5 years but we left anyway, fed up with teacher "experts" without scant background in the subjects they teach due. We also hit the wall with poor leadership, very limited elective and HS EC choices, the bad building, and the seriously stressful high school curriculum featuring few choices (10th grade, AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Physics, AP Cal, want something different, shut up).

If you can afford better or are willing to move to Upper NW or the burbs, you get out of BASIS. Last year, a large parent pressure group formed to monitor board meetings and push for change. The group seems to be getting some results but their campaign has been little too late for us.[/quote]

Wait, kids at Basis are not taking AP Bio, AP Chem and AP Physics all together in 10th grade, are they?
My kid could definitely not handle that.[/quote]

No!

I believe the standard sequence is:
9th: one regular HS science (because they have two English classes, so don't have time for a second science)
10: AP version of what they took in 9th, plus one other HS science
11: AP version of what they took in 10th, and the final HS science.

So they end up taking regular HS bio, chem, and physics, plus AP version of two of those.[/quote]

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