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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous

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Wow. You just got a little crazy with the assumptions, PP. I never said there weren't going to be activities. And your accusation about my spreading FUD is paranoid.

What I said, and in case you failed to hear it, is this.

Well-rounded is not what Basis is after. They are only about the test scores. All the test scores.

I get it. You are a Basis booster. No problem. Just try, next time, to actually read what I'm saying before channeling your inner rage monster.

[b]Assumption? No. There has been a string of misinformation trashing Basis, suggesting there is only core academics and drudge work, that it's not well-rounded, virtually no extracurricular activities, music, art, and no fun, students have no life - when the website and everything else suggests otherwise. [/b]

So we get it, you aren't sending your kid to Basis. Fine. But it raises the question of why one would keep coming back to these posts about Basis when you aren't sending your kid to Basis and evidently aren't interested in it?

It's one thing to think your child is not a good fit for Basis, and if that's the case, fine, good for you, find a school you like and move on. [b]But repetetively posting misinformation and carrying on as though Basis has somehow wronged you and will wrong others (the REAL "rage monster" in these threads) makes little sense if that's all that's going on here. [/b]

[b]So what other conclusion is one to draw from the repetitive trashing? Occam's razor would have it that you have a stake in another school.[/b]
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Well, the first conclusion to draw that on an anonymous message board, there are many people posting with various issues with BASIS. That isn't what you did. You quoted my single two line post about BASIS being focussed on test scores (hardly a controversial statement if you read their own promotional material) and you unleashed a lot of angry assumptions about what I never said. If you just wanted to rage at everybody who isn't on the BASIS bandwagon, have at it. But if you are going to quote me and accuse me of things I never said AND come back for a round two of accusations that do not relate at all to what I said, I'm going to have to set you right.

It's also a pretty good idea to avoid assuming you know where someone is sending their child and why they are reading any thread here. [/quote]

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