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[quote=Anonymous][i]The concern I am trying to express is about the bigger picture, not just any one class. [b]I believe that the cumulative academic load placed on students from day 1 at our campus, especially combined with the day to day speed of coverage, is simply not optimal for all but most gifted and dedicated students. [/b][b]It throws kids and parents out of balance, and causes stress, loss of sleep, loss of play time [/b][b]and out of school activities.[/b][/i] [b]Can it be managed? Absolutely. [/b][i][b]But in my opinion at a needless and sad cost. [/b]If a kid is thriving doing calculus in 9th grade then great. But colleges don't want or expect that, and nor is it necessarily in the best long term interests of most children emotionally and intellectually to push as far as possible as fast as possible in all subjects at the same time. So it is a matter of opportunity costs and emotional costs of the extremely rigorous content and test based curriculum that upsets me. I am all for elevated expectations, and AP tests are groovy... but not so damn many and not when taking the tests are seen as an ultimate academic end in and of themselves!!![/i]

To any Tucson or other Basis School parents with experience in AZ with the Basis Model, looking down the road a year or two, how does your child manage? The day is long and crammed with note taking, there is 2 hours of studying a night, wake up the next day and repeat. Sounds like work, not school. Did you find that the academic load started off a little easier in 5th grade and then became harder in the following grades? Any other things to watch out for with the Basis Model? The electives sound good on paper but look like just more note taking, kind of sending a message, we are only about academics, leave if you want something else.
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