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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like BASIS is great for kids who are organized and already really bright.  So why are parents enrolling their kids if they know their kids are "not good at math?"  Why subject your child to that if you already know your child doesn't fit that mold?  I'm not knocking BASIS.  It sounds like a great school for kids who need a challenge.  My criticism is directed at parents who know or at least have a suspicion that their kid may not do well and still enrolls them into the school anyway.[/quote]

Kids in 5th grade at BASIS take a placement test and are put in anything from grade level math to Algebra 1 and sometimes Alg 2.

I know lots of parents pressure the school to put their child in the more advanced classes if the placement test scores are borderline - sometimes the school agrees and sometimes they don't. Very few parents seem to ask for their kids to be switched to one a level 'down' even though they probably should.

As for organization, it's something that all the kids struggle with to varying degrees at first. Pretty typical for middle schoolers. But at BASIS they have more classes (8-9 in middle school), including some that only meet 3 days a week, so the amount of stuff to juggle and keep track of is more than a school with 6 subjects.[/quote]

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