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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a nephew who left BASIS after 8th grade and a niece--they are siblings--who left Deal after 7th. Both have gone on to HS in Fairfax, one at TJ.  When I asked my sibling what, in her experience, was the main difference between the DC public middle schools the family had experienced and Fairfax I found her answer interesting, "flexibility and respect for individual preferences."

BASIS wouldn't permit my nephew to study Chinese, which the family speaks at home, at an advanced level. He took beginning Chinese at BASIS to avoid being forced to study a new language, and wasn't permitted to take AP Chinese exam at BASIS in the 8th grade. My sibling registered him to take the AP at Sidwell, where he scored a 5. Fairfax lets him take college-level Chinese at a local community college (for free). Meanwhile, my niece wasn't permitted to take algebra in 6th grade at Deal, although she was ready for it, so my sibling signed her up for algebra with Stanford Pre-Collegiate studies on-line. Deal forced her to repeat algebra in 7th grade ("for scheduling purposes") and the rest of her middle school course work wasn't sufficiently challenging.

The family had enough and bailed for Fairfax. They've kept their NW house and plan to return post HS.[/quote]

BASIS is up front about what they are and are not, offer and don't. So, to summarize, your sister/brother sent their kid to a school that doesn't offer advanced level Chinese or languages before 8th grade and were shocked to learn that the school didn't have special rules or offerings for them?

Tell me you are entitled without telling me. [/quote]

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