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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP- I am very familiar with what they are doing. I know many kids who have shadowed on multiple days and said that multiple periods were spent almost entirely on preparing for DC-CAS. Additionally, I know students in the school that have echoed the same thing- reading consists of reading passages and answering questions- very UN- liberal artsy...I am not saying that other schools don't do the same or that test prep is necessarily a bad thing- ideologically I don't believe it is best, but I can see the other side of the argument. However, touting yourself as a school that presents a broad liberal arts curriculum and then spending time doing test prep does not sit well with me. [/quote]

There is a lot of misinformation out about BASIS. However, saying they are a test prep school focused on the DCCAS is really incorrect. I have an actual child attending BASIS everyday and the DCCAS prep is a lot less as BASIS than what they had at their previous JKLM elementary school last year.

I am posting not to change the mind of the uninformed person who commented but to try to influence anyone that might believe the made up post and others like it. If you are interested in BASIS please get info first hand from students, parents and faculty at the school. If you shadow a school on fire drill day, that doesn't mean they have a fire drill everyday. [/quote]

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