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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Totally agree with pp about it being BS-my kid is honors almost every term and without question all A's and therefore always 90's club, and has akready decided he wants to attend MIT, but he wont stay for high school. He too has regressed in his writing ability. Not everyone in DC with great academic aspirations stays at BAsis through HS, which is why kids at Wilson and Walls and privates end up at such great colleges-Basis has yet to graduate a class, so who knows how many will end up graduating from BDC to even go to college.[/quote]

sorry for my single sloppy sentence.  Absolutely did not mean that kids who leave BDC here are not college bound or do not want to go to college..  Was talking about the European system and the original premise as explained by Olga Block, which is a reality there with O levels and A levels not here - .  I do think the Basis kids will go to college though.

The reality here is that about 40% of kids at all the BASIS schools leave after 8th grade for a variety of reasons - many just want a different type of high school experience, larger, with sports, whatever.  Here they absolutely go to Walls and Wilson and will go on to great colleges - my kid also wants to go to MIT.  Did not mean to insult the students who decide to leave.  Again I screwed up conflating two ideas I was in a rush and I am sorry.  It was not what I meant to say at all.  I'm sure the same is true in AZ, that the kids who leave go to college.  BDC is a new school and it has had its growing pains but for a new school I think it is doing pretty well.

I like Saxon math because my kid appears to know math.  I think Basis knows how to do a lot of things right, and don't want high school sports. I think we are going to stay for high school. I like the friends my kid has made as well. I think most of the science classes have been good, some of the teachers are great.  Don't completely agree with the passive nature of the instruction.

And agree with you that English has been terrible and also don't know what to do about this in terms of my child because they also have regressed.  The 5th grade teacher is pretty much teaching the basics from what I have heard.  But I agree with the other parent about feeling frustrated on this point because my kid is getting good grades and working hard so it seems unfair and is difficult to deal with the whole writing issue but we are going to have to do something this summer at home.

Anyway, again, I just reread my post which was written far too quickly and I am really sorry that I stupidly said that kids leave BDC because they don't want to go to college.  NOT what I meant at all, but definitely what I wrote.  Decided not to leave this alone because I sound like an a$$hole and it was a mistake.  Please accept my apologies.

Saxon math appears to be working at the other Basis schools and I think it is working for us.[/quote]

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