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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure. If I could back to 4th, we'd have stuck things out at our DCPS for 5th and applied to parochial middle schools. We'd have figured something else out for high school, tried for Walls, maybe moved to NoVa temporarily or asked for help from family to afford parochial high school. We got the college result we wanted, but at high cost in time, money and frustration. Our kid would've liked the chance to pursue serious ECs with classmates.[/quote]

This is the kind of thing that makes me so leery about BASIS. Yeah, it can get your kid through, but at what cost? I'd rather my kid go to a good college and not see education as traumatic (which I think will make them perform at a higher level) than eke into a great college on the back of 4-7 years of misery, anxiety and struggle. [/quote]

It really, really depends on the kid. For some, BASIS is perfect; for others, it isn't. My DD thrived at SH w/ her tight knit drama crew, an ability to ignore behavioral issues & the social skills to avoid problems, and good enough academics to have all the options for HS. BASIS would have drained her for likely the same outcome. My DS would have been constantly stressed out by classmates at SH, would have found the work too easy and likely didn't have the skills to make the team for his sport (at best, would ride the bench). On the other hand, DS finds BASIS academics easy (math is his thing, which is where many feel the pressure most), made his sports team with good playing time and has a very diverse crew of surprisingly similar friends. Same family; two very different kids who correct paths were totally different for likely similar college outcomes.[/quote]

This is basically the first reasonable thing I've read on this thread. As one of the people who routinely objects to BASIS, I endorse this version. But I don't think BASIS markets itself this way and I don't think most parents trying to get their kids in have such a nuanced view. [/quote]

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