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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG BASIS doesn't have the money for capstone projects.  Wait, you didn't notice until senior year?
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Then what’s the point of pushing kids so hard to take all these AP for?  To do a joke project senior year?

Doesn’t sound like a good system at all.  Burn kids out in the AP factory and then take time to recover senior year.

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APs aren't even hard. Look at how that other parent has their kid taking all the APs and also all the Cambridge exams, plus summer immersion programs. Where's the burnout?[/quote]

The burnout emanates from cramming for a slew of APs that BASIS requires to be taken by May of jr. year. Cambridge exams aren't graded by computers. Some kids prefer them because they allow a test taker to show what they've learned to human graders through good writing, speaking languages, spelling out math work etc. Saving a couple subject exams for Nov of senior year sounds smart, and sane. [/quote]

My kids aren’t burnt out.

Sounds like a you problem.[/quote]

Mine either.  Quite the opposite.  Loves to learn and excited about life.  Super happy.[/quote]

+1.  However, we are all burned out reading Cambridge Exam Dad's endless screeds about how BASIS wasn't a perfect fit for his DD and didn't 100% support her interests in marine biology and some obscure language.

Seriously, no one cares.[/quote]

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