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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The program isn't flexible.  It's the BASIS way or the highway. They have a formula for academic success and won't deviate from it.

If you're looking for respect for individual talents, unique backgrounds, unusual ambitions, distinctive learning styles or whatever else, you want to go elsewhere.[/quote]

BASIS is not perfect and not always flexible but neither is DCPS and School without Walls. School with Walls wanted my child to repeat AP World History with a score of 4 since it was done before 9th grade and absolutely would not consider a substitute such as AP Geography or another history class. SWW also would have had my kid repeat geometry and possibly Algebra 1 and 2 and Precalculus if chose to take their test and not meet their standards instead of honoring his grades and giving him a chance on taking next course in logical sequence. So we chose to stay at BASIS.

Then someone goes on to criticize no advanced language options at BASIS. Does DCPS have this or SWW? I think folks are being nitpickers. For a free public school BASIS is a pretty good option despite not being perfect.[/quote]

DCPS/SWW do offer advanced language options.  Also, admins at Wilson, Walls and several DCPS middle schools will let advanced language students test/place out of curricular language requirements. DCPS does not require middle and high students who speak, read and write a major world language to take beginners classes in that language, or study a third language instead of perfecting a second, like BASIS does.

At Walls, advanced language students can of course take higher level language and literature classes taught at GW.[/quote]

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