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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fighting has been isolated in the upper grades and it appears that it is effectively being dealt with.

My kid has maybe an hour and a half a night, and some nights less.  The thing for us is that our DC with a short attention span and cluttered ways is now organized and finishes the work efficiently and can plan ahead for nights when there are activities.[/quote]

An hour and a half? What grade is he in?
For 8th grade we average  3-4hours

Average day of homework 
30 problems every day, including 10 minutes of revewing new concepts, and 5 minutes of reviewing for mistakes (1 hour)
2 science homeworks per day (2 hours)
Reading and reviewing history, English homework,  work on a project (1 hour)
Review for a test ( at least 30 minutes)

It's true that the pace of math is very fast, even by European standards. 
It all depends on the child. My child tells me his classmates are very competitive. In fact one "smart" girl, usually quited poised, got so upset because she got a lower grade that my kid that she ripped part of my child's CJ.

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Thank you for this. Writing the deposit check for a real school (private). It hurts, but your testimony puts it all in perspective. Basis is a hot mess, but perfect for people who are too lazy to move to the suburbs.[/quote]

The process that you are engaged in is known as [i]confirmation bias[/i]: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias[/url]

It is unlikely that you would have been dissuaded from enrolling your child in private school had you read only positive posts about BASIS.

Of course, you could simply have read the post and basked quietly in the sense of validation it afforded you.  Instead, you felt the need to bash those of us who, having investigated DCPS MSs, MCPS MSs, FCPSs, and several area privates, chose to enroll our kids in BASIS because we believe, having studied the curriculum, that it will prepare our children better than any of the alternatives.

Good luck to you and your kids.  We hope you do not become a slave to those monthly tuition checks.  We hope you won't have to work countless hours of overtime to stay afloat, sacrificing precious hours with your children in the process.  We hope that, having made your tuition payments, you have enough left over to make respectable contributions during the numerous fund-raisers you'll be facing.

We hope your kids don't develop a sense of inferiority as their classmates flaunt their wealth.  Then again, a little humility would be better than a sense of entitlement.

We hope your marriage is strong enough to weather the potential financial storms on the horizon.  If you happen to fall on hard times, we hope the school steps in and provides adequate financial aid so that you won't be forced to withdraw and enroll in an inferior school with us lazy folk.

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