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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From the open house, I understood that they routinely hold kids back. If a child does not want to repeat the grade, they have to leave, so technically you cannot fault the school or call the practice illegal, as the parent is choosing to withdraw.

Most public schools do not hold kids back even if they are way behind. Both are problematic in their own different ways.  [/quote]

Yeah, I also heard this at the open house (maybe we were at the same one)... She said that around 20 percent of the kids don't pass their comps, and while they have a chance to retake it (or repeat), the student often leaves.[/quote]

DP. I think the attrition is more nuanced than that. Yes, there are kids who don’t pass the comps and choose to leave rather than repeat a grade (although some can do summer school to avoid being held back). A lot of other students leave after 8th grade to go to an application high school or private. The high school curriculum is different than most high schools and I can see how that plus small class sizes wouldn’t appeal to everyone. But oddly, there are more than a few 5th graders who have been doing private school tours since the beginning of the school year. In other words, these kids were at Basis for all of 4 weeks or so before embarking on the private school tour circuit last fall. It led me to think that maybe some families put their kid at Basis for 5th knowing/hoping they’ll leave in 6th. It seems odd to me to move your kid to Basis for only one year, but maybe I’m an outlier in that regard.[/quote]

We did that. 5th grade at our IB school was terrible, and I wasn't too impressed by the 5th grade in the surrounding schools either. I wanted to move to a MS that started in 6th, so we went to BASIS for 5th and then moved on. It was actually a great experience because BASIS taught my kid how to be organized -- he used that to hit the ground running in private school.[/quote]

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