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[quote=Anonymous]It's not fair to blame Basis for attrition between 8th and 9th grade.  Kids who were well served by Basis in middle school and were reasonably happy there leave for all kinds of reasons.  Many entered Basis in the first place with the intention of using it just for middle school and then doing an application school, private, or a regular large public for high school.

Almost any high school has AP, honors and/or IB classes, so the gap between the rigor at Basis and the rigor available at nearly any other high school is much smaller than it was for middle school.  Every tiny school is going to suffer from limited course offerings, limited sports, limited ECs, and a very limited social scene.

Among my kid's super high achieving friend group, everyone was reasonably happy at Basis.  Around half enrolled in high school.  One left for sports.  One left for an EC that wasn't offered at Basis.  One left because most of their closest friends left.  One left because they wanted a bigger social scene.  Leaving does not mean that the kid was poorly served by Basis or that the kid couldn't hack it academically.  It just means that the kid weighed all of the options and preferred one of them over Basis.  [/quote]

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