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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can retake them before the new year starts to a passing grade, and you must pass all but math to go on to the next grade.[/quote]

With most teachers trying hard, caring about the kids and teaching well (we have had some bad ones but my kid has been there 3 years and never failed a comp) but even the bad teachers never trying to hide the ball, 60% on a comp is a pretty low bar.  If your comp grade (50%) plus your total grade up til then (the other 50%) ends up less than 60%, you have to complete a packet, but retention is not an issue.  And as the pp said, you can repeat math, which is the hardest start for many kids coming from not so great schools.  I think this is just about no social promotion, basically done European style - high stakes at the end of every term and every year, O levels and A levels.  Ring a bell with anyone?  It is great as the posters on the Latin thread said to be in a school where everyone goes to college, but[b] Basis is designed so that those who don't want to aggressively go to college don't stay for high school[/b].  They still get a great MS education for most.  There are outliers, like poor OP's kid, who is just overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information even though good/interested in math and science.  And there are others who just don't test well.  But the only way to figure out if you have a Basis kid is to give it a shot.  And sometimes your kid will surprise you by being more up for it than you expected, and sometimes your kid will clearly turn out to be less than up for it.  If it is turning any kid off from education, my advice is head elsewhere while they still like school........

OP,
good luck to you and your son
soft and happy landing at Deal[/quote]

This is hogwash.  We are not staying for high school and my child aggressively wants to go to college. It is also nice to know that 8th grade science does labs, can't wait.  However, you guys are fooling yourselves if you think that BASIS is rooting them in the math fundamentals.  They move too fast for it.  My child can do the advanced concepts and I KNOW he is really slow on some basic concepts.  I trusted the system last year and assumed he was being reinforced in these basics.  Early this year, I discovered that he was not and am working with him.  He resists because "he knows all the advanced concepts" and does not want to accept that what I am reinforcing is important.  He went in strong in writing because his elementary had writer's workshop daily but he has regressed there.  Keep you heads in the sand. Being able to do something on paper and understanding the application of it are two different things. I'm not happy because I am considering putting him in summer school next summer and he works to hard with good grades to have to spend five weeks of his summer in academics that he should have learned doing the school year.

OP - I don't think Deal will hold your child back if they do not pass the comps.  However, he may have to take PreAlgebra which less than half of the 6th grade class is taking now. They will give your child a math test to determine placement.  Call the Principal or Assistant Principal![/quote]

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