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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The liberal arts curriculum is strong, and the extra currics are still starting and spurting depending on student interest.  I don't know how big my private school senior class was at (choose one of the above) Sidwell, STA, NCS, or GDS, but we all knew each other and our teachers knew all of this.  The top performing school had 240 kids.  BASIS is offering more spots, and while we may not have enough to be a TJ, we do have a liberal arts AP track, and more than anything BASIS supports student and parent choice.  Am I glad BASIS was not my high school? Yes.  [/quote]

Wonder why you're glad Basis was not your high school?  I was bowled over by the 8th Grade teachers at Basis at Back to School night, wishing I'd had such teachers at my high SES NJ Middle/High School.  Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Algebra II and Economics, serious kick-ass teachers in 8th Grade, please can I go?[/quote]

Because I had an undiagnosed LD that was math related, and barely got through Algebra II.  Perhaps now it would be different, and tutoring etc would have been different, but I still cannot do my dcs math homework.  The first private school I went to told my parents I was mentally retarded.  They laughed.

Went to an Ivy, have an otherwise great life, but cannot balance a checkbook and always have to have my secretary or my husband do all the calculations related to my profession (not a lot of them).  It is a running joke in my family, and although it is funny now, I found myself struggling to help my 2nd grader with graphs of "place numbers" last week and wonder whether I could hack BASIS.  [/quote]

What kind of an LD is just math related?  And how did you get into an Ivy if you can't do math?  Family money/connections?[/quote]

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