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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The complaint is that the building crushes souls and that the students won’t have a full enough high school experience and extra curriculars to be able to compete in college admissions - hmmmmm [/quote]

You clearly don't know any of the juniors or seniors if you don't think they have a full enough high school experience with extra curriculars.  It may not be the experience that you had, but these kids lead incredibly impressive busy lives.[/quote]

I actually think this poster was challenging some of the well worn tropes about BASIS, especially in light of what this class has done college admissions-wise. That said, as the parent of one of these kids headed to a “selective” school, and with a sibling soon to go through the process, the criticism of BASIS’s extracurricular offerings is fair. It’s not a 2000 student suburban high school. If your kid is a serious athlete, for example, BASIS just doesn’t really have the resources to support that.  Students just have to be prepared to find those and other serious extracurricular opportunities outside of school. And they do. [/quote]

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