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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But PPs who are Basis parents compare it to their regular public school growing up. It can’t be so very difficult that no kid coming in via the lottery could handle it. It’s too bad no one even gets the chance. [/quote]

This whole tiresome thread has been complaining about BASIS's sky high attrition rate. Why do so many kids leave BASIS?[b] Because it's really demanding.[/b] Yet those same people who complain about the attrition rate think their kids should be allowed to parachute into BASIS whenever they want. What makes you think that your kid is going to do any better than the kids who started at BASIS in fifth grade who later left? Probably your kid will do even worse because they would come in very far behind everyone else. [/quote]

This is very narrow view of what's really going on at BASIS academically. We left BASIS for a private that has proved more demanding academically in almost every way. We hear the same story from friends who left BASIS for public school GT and IB Diploma programs in top suburban schools.

At BASIS, if the kids consistently prep hard for quizzes and tests, they do fine academically. At my kid's new school, students must do far more to succeed. They have to work effectively in teams for weeks on end, master public speaking and presentation skills, do field research in teams and cite their sources properly, read more books and do more writing to excel in humanities classes, even do charitable work for the school and take ethnics classes.

In fact, there is no shortage of middle and high school students in DC who could keep up with the BASIS curriculum in any grade. Consider that BASIS only teaches one of the four AP Physics curricula. My kid's school teaches all of them. It's common for students at this school to take AP language exams in 9th or 10th grade, and to score 5s. We never heard of this happening at BASIS.

What's happening is that outside students who could handle the BASIS curriculum from 6th-12th grades, easily, aren't being permitted to enter the school due to the obnoxious political climate.  [/quote]

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