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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd agree with you if BASIS DC put real resources into setting up and supporting the senior projects. They don't. In our experience, the whole arrangement is essentially a joke for most of the seniors, an excuse for admins, teachers, parents and especially the kids to check out. Those fascinating opportunities exist mainly on paper.

The main problem is that BASIS DC is too cash-strapped to pull this approach to learning off on good form. The funding, support and supervisory infrastructure isn't there meaning that the kids often end up with little to show for their projects. Applying knowledge to the real world, growth...frankly more like mass goofing off and spinning in a way that's lonely for many.  [/quote]

I think the point of a gap year is to practice adulthood and take responsibility for your own life. This is what BASIS is giving the kids -- seems clear from the comments and some students rise to the occasion, and others wait for somone to tell them what to do and end up doing nothing. [/quote]

It is not a gap year.  You are cramming 3 years of high school and then just letting kids do their own senior project.  PPabive is correct that if this is the case then you need an advisor, staff, networks, connections, and money to support these kids.  Basis just does not have any of this in place.  So what most kids do is grind out all this work in 3 years and then they feel they deserve to relax and goof off their last year.

A true gap year is after after high not during high school.  The senior year is supposed to be a “senior project”[/quote]

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