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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really, I'm tired of boosters suggesting that those who fail to drink the BASIS Kool Aid are stupid or have stupid children.

Guess we're even?[/quote]

Why do boosters try so hard :?: Maybe the school can't speak for itself.  Just like buying a house, car whatever.  You get suspicious when the sales rep is just trying too hard.  Get the hint boosters, you are trying too hard.  If BASIS DC is great let it speak for itself.[/quote]

I don't get the vitriol, nor do I get the claim of "trying to hard".  Most schools speak for themselves, for better or worse, [i]by way of word-of-mouth from first hand experiences of the families that actually have kids there[/i], yet around here whenever anyone says anything positive or responds to someone else, they are immediately pounced on and attacked.  It's not as though there's anyone here constantly hyping advertising Basis - there aren't exactly a ton of Basis threads and this one has several times sat without any activity for weeks - many other threads for other schools have gotten much more activity.  And, nobody's forcing anyone to read Basis threads, if you don't like hearing about Basis, why keep coming here?

Last year, when we were wrestling with the issue of where to send DC for middle school, we watched the Basis threads on this board before even deciding to send our child there and saw this constant animosity toward Basis before they even opened their doors or even had any boosters, so to suggest the vitriol is in response to over-the-top boosters isn't credible since it came before the boosters did.  But then again, even then we questioned the credibility of the naysayers, since we saw the same thing happen with Yu Ying and several other schools.  The constant nastiness makes no sense on its face.  So what if someone says something positive about their school.  Does that in any way warrant the attacks and vitriol?   No.  From any rational perspective whatsoever, it's the detractors and bashers that are trying way too hard.  [/quote]

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