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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is positivity toxic?  [b]Even people with a positive mindset can still be working toward improvements at the school.[/b]  Most BASIS families recognize that, like any school, BASIS isn’t perfect.  Having a good attitude goes a long way toward having a better experience.  And kids pick up on parent negativity so at least don’t air grievances about the school in front of your kid if you want them to try to be happy and succeed there.[/quote]

Working towards improvement? How does that go when the franchise, doesn't solicit, or seem to want, meaningful input from stakeholders? No formal parent or parent-teacher organization is permitted. Parents get to fill in annual surveys where iffy seeming results report how thrilled we are with the program, no matter what sort of input we might have provided. If you take an issue up with the HoS, you can expect to be advised to consider finding a more suitable program for your family. With not even four dozen seniors left this year, from a cohort that began with around 135 5th graders, how many grads should be at the finish line? 42 is too many because the group includes the odd...dissenter? How about 30 or 20? I agree that requiring a bunch of AP tests is reasonable, but not the lack of flexibility at BASIS and college counseling that's not just weak, it's tremendously time wasting and under-girded by borderline bullying. When PPs come here mocking the whining "Cambridge exams" dad whose kid rebelled by studying, gasp, marine bio and immersion language, they're missing the forest for the trees. That family, apparently aiming high in college admissions, innovated within the curriculum by copying an approach embraced by some top privates in the area. Shame on them? Obedience/positivity rules?
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