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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents need to due their due diligence before enrolling. Basis is academically very rigorous and the kids cut out for it will benefit. Watering down rigor is not the solution. Leave that niche for the interested families. I am very happy with Basis![/quote]

Watering down should not occur, but do realize that even “kids cut out for it” can greatly benefit from a much more well rounded education. Hence the niche is  for “kids cut out for it” and parents who care about nothing else.[/quote]

Exactly right. Whenever I meet these kids who have been pounded for years to be perfect in everything, I can only hope they seize the freedom they get in college to separate and become the people THEY want to be instead of the molded product that BIM and the high-pressure parents produce.

They are still stuck with a miserable teenage chapter in their lives.  All for their own good, right?

It's so sad.[/quote]

I mean, yes there's a lot of homework, but this characterization of a "miserable teenage chapter" just doesn't square with the reality of the kids who are there. Most of them are really happy to be around kids who are just as nerdy as they are. You run into way more parents who are unhappy with BIM than you do kids, and that's owing to the self-inflicted management issues - but the kids generally have a pretty good experience because they self-select into a school that's giving them what they're looking for.[/quote]

Yes, self-selecting is fair by high school.  That’s why so many leave after 8th grade.[/quote]

I mean, there are also a far greater number of viable options for advanced academics at the high school level - and fewer options for extracurriculars outside of the school environment, meaning that students feel like they need to go to a high school where they can get their ECs.

It's sort of a chicken and egg problem for BIM - if they could retain more high schoolers, they'd have stronger ECs, but without them, they can't retain them.[/quote]

Well, the fact that BIM ‘loses’ kids to Thomas Jefferson (TJ) high school says great things about BIM, cause those are the students that BIM taught in middle school and were prepped insanely well to be able to be accepted to TJs which doesnt have tuition costs. So why wouldnt a child who was well prepped in middle school not wish to go to a great high school for free? So it seems to me that BIM is an amazing school that preps their middle schoolers for top high schools; and for those who stay thru its high school, well they are also well prepped for great colleges later on. So BIM isnt ‘losing’ students due to it being a bad school, but rather cause it gets their kids well prepped for whichever next steps they wish to take academically. My child is currently in middle school and when the time comes if she is accepted to TJs then heck yeah I would rather her go there cause its also a great school and its free! But I wont be coming into this forum to trash BIM, but rather to be thankful for getting my kid ready for the next challenge. [/quote]

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