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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PS.  If BASIS' approach to language learning was intelligent, the most prestigious test-in MS and HS magnet programs around the country would be rushing to copy it, along with top private schools.

They aren't.[/quote]

I think you are overestimating how much anyone cares about language learning in the US. [/quote]

I know that of the students who left BASIS mainly over language learning policy is heading to an Ivy League school to study engineering in the fall.  We keep in touch with the family. He took an AP language test freshman year in HS and scored a 5. Later on, he took, an International Baccalaureate Diploma language exam (two years past AP) and scored 6/7. It seems that a few Ivy admissions officers care.  Yea, maybe nobody else.[/quote]

I mean, that's great and it seems like BASIS wasn't the right school for him, but it doesn't mean that BASIS is wrong to have a different approach to language. Not every individual school owes you the specific educational model you want for your child. Honestly, I don't see why that's hard to understand. I specifically don't see how it's hard to understand under a school choice model like DC has for better or worse -- the whole point is that different people want different things from schools and so different schools offer different curriculums. FWIW, though I don't agree with it, I actually think your argument that you should be accommodated is better at an IB that some kids have no choice but to go to; there's no world in which a charter school students have to intentionally opt into owes you a different educational model. [/quote]

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