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Have you reached out to the school to discuss? Are you staying for 7th? [/quote]

Ummm... there's no reaching out to Basis to complain about their homework or their testing schedule. That's their M.O. That's their educational model. They believe their approach leads to successful kids (and according to US News ratings, it does). If your kid is unhappy or stressed or you don't like seeing your straight-A, hard-working kid get Cs, then you leave. The environment there also just BREEDS grade competition. We've tried all year to give her a variety of stress coping skills (not to mention some perspective on how much a grade in 6th grade matters) but there's something about the constant, weekly testing that just keeps the kids competing with each other. It's like an academic Olympic try-out. As explained in a number of parent/teacher events, the local franchise of Basis has definitely made changes to the way they run 5th grade here (as opposed to their other locations) because they now understand that there's a really big educational gap between DCPS elementary schools and where Basis wants the kids to be. So 5th grade is their transition year. And, like I said, my kid really enjoyed 5th grade. She liked the challenge and the increased responsibility and the classwork. But now, in 6th, the training wheels are off and Basis has a proven "winning" formula that they believe in. You either get on the bus and go for the ride or you get off.

Yes, if she somehow got into Latin she would definitely leave. But she's been trying since 5th to get in there and it's never happened for us. Other options explored but aren't good fits for other reasons. It's really too bad that there aren't more non-private options that are for hard-working, smart kids who like being challenged in our area. It seems to be that there's got to be a difference between THIS and .... an educational experience that is one step up from babysitting.[/quote]
Well said.[/quote]

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