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[quote=Anonymous]You guys don't sound like BASIS parents. With kids in the high school I know that every family doesn't toe the franchise line on every matter for 8 yrs.

There are resourceful families who've been advised by school counselors not to have grads take gap years who plan and take them anyway. There are students who take AP classes not offered at BASIS over summers. There are a few students signing up for Nov Cambridge International A-Levels at the British School of DC, mostly for languages after a summer of immersion study. There are middle school parent-led study groups set up for immersion language maintenance meeting off campus. We know a couple seniors who study languages past the AP level in the evenings in US Dept of Ag classes alongside adults.

There are ways and ways to adapt a rigid curriculum and management structure to meet your family's needs and interests w/out running off to a private or Fairfax. You guys don't sound like you know about how BASIS was forced to change its ways in weeding out SpEd students a decade back. There were many complaints to city council members and a number of lawsuits. There was also a time when BASIS wouldn't permit a student govt in the HS. There is a student govt now.

Things can change, not quickly, easily or dramatically but productively nonetheless. [/quote]

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