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[quote=Anonymous]Forget about BASIS DC supporting your family's particular language learning goals if your student goes in proficient in any language other than English seeking support to emerge fluent, or simply to be left alone to achieve this goal independently. Same story in BASIS Arizona etc.

The franchise won't work intelligently with families where a kid speaks, reads and writes advanced Mandarin, Russian, Arabic etc. for their age on arrival.  No, they'll require the kid to study a major world language they already speak, read and write well at the beginner level from 7th grade, or to study a new language from the beginner level, after taking at least two years of Latin lower down.  BASIS won't allow students to "test out" of the language requirement by exceeding standards for language learning standards set in Arizona, despite the fact that this is common practice in many of the nation's highest-performing school systems, e.g. Fairfax and MoCo. Few BASIS parents mind, at least not in DC, unsurprisingly because hardly any bilingual students are enrolled.  Not impressed.[/quote]

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