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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We got the critical flexibility and support we needed to pursue post AP language, performance music and STEM competition success (involving some travel on school days) from SJC. At BASIS, when we would ask admins for a little flexibility in middle school and 9th grade the answer was invariably, no. Too many barriers for our kid to stand out in college admissions down the road.[/quote]

Sounds like private school was the right choice for you.[b] It’s harder for a public school to violate policies like you were asking.[/b] TBH, except for post AP language, for the others I would have just done it and waited for someone to tell me no. As long as your kid keeps up in class and you don’t push absences past 10 days or whatever, there’s a lot you can get away with.[/quote]

Um, not in Fairfax, MoCo or Arlington, not in well-run suburban systems aiming high in college admissions. The open-minded former BASIS HoS would have worked with you. This guy wears his insecurities on his sleeve by controlling whatever he can. Glad you could afford to leave to stay on track for an Ivy.[/quote]

The current HOH is a big reason we are leaving for Private for HS. He makes no changes, blows off parent concerns, does nothing to try and control classroom behavior. My child has gotten excellent grades - and honestly if Basis followed through on the curriculum as it was designed (as opposed to being months behind the AZ campuses), she would really thrive more and maybe we would stay. But the teaching quality has been hit or miss, admin is clueless and prides themselves on dragging along kids who are in over their heads and probably shouldn't be at Basis rather than being an environment where advanced children can thrive.[/quote]

We could have written this post. We're fed up with rowdy middle school classes. My sibling has teens at the original Arizona campus and their school is simply much better. The campus has good facilities and a serious performing arts program. Teens can play in a first-rate school orchestra. They can take languages past the AP level and advanced humanities classes from 7th grade. A different world.[/quote]

Are you considering moving to Arizona? If not, what's the relevance of what an AZ school offers? How does that make any more sense than saying, "Boston Latin is better to I'm leaving Walls".[/quote]

The statement above shouts false equivalency because BASIS isn't a stand-alone school, like BL or Walls. The relevance of what an AZ school offers is that BASIS DC admins, and longtime parents for that matter, constantly claim that BASIS HQ/AZ policy doesn't permit dramatic upgrades when this is clearly BS.  What's true is that the current BASIS DC administration isn't interested in serious performing arts, or languages past the AP level (strongly preferring that kids learn two or three languages at the beginning level), or advanced MS humanities classes.  It's also true that toxic DC politics won't support backfilling at BASIS DC while the AZ campuses freely backfill.  [/quote]

For the gazillionth time, the AZ campuses are allowed to “freely backfill” because they’re allowed to administer placement exams to kids entering any grade. They are allowed to & do make kids repeat multiple grades. So, they’ll let a kid who just finished 9th grade at another school take a placement exam for 10th grade BASIS, but if the kid doesn’t perform up to par, they’ll have to repeat a couple grades at BASIS. Obviously, that would never fly in DC.[/quote]

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