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[quote=Anonymous][quote]We are not staying for high school and my child aggressively wants to go to college. It is also nice to know that 8th grade science does labs, can't wait.  However, you guys are fooling yourselves if you think that BASIS is rooting them in the math fundamentals.  They move too fast for it.  [b]My child can do the advanced concepts and I KNOW he is really slow on some basic concepts.  I trusted the system last year and assumed he was being reinforced in these basics.  Early this year, I discovered that he was not and am working with him.  He resists because "he knows all the advanced concepts" and does not want to accept that what I am reinforcing is important. [/b] He went in strong in writing because his elementary had writer's workshop daily but he has regressed there.  Keep you heads in the sand. Being able to do something on paper and understanding the application of it are two different things. I'm not happy because I am considering putting him in summer school next summer and he works to hard with good grades to have to spend five weeks of his summer in academics that he should have learned doing the school year.

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Can the PP explain what basic concepts their child doesn't know? And, as a parent, how did you find out that he doesn't know them? I'm sincere in asking this question because as a fellow BASIS parent, I look at my child's math grade (which is decent) and I look at their textbook (which looks really hard to me) and I feel like they're learning a whole lot of math. I wouldn't know what to even ask my child to find out if he doesn't really know what he's doing.
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Ok now the conspiracy theorist has appeared.  This is also hogwash in my opinion.

I would also like to know this as a non good at math BASIS parent whose child is doing well at math but has no way to evaluate "basic concepts."  What do you mean?  What "basic concepts" are our kids missing?  I get that if they leave before completing Precal they are in trouble because of the failure to do a separate year of Geometry.  But what else?[/quote]

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