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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What makes you think that shaming parents who don't have "academically advanced and motivated" kids to cease and desist from taking a BASIS 5th grade spot, perhaps compelling them to move to the burbs for lack of a viable alternative, will work? Fact is, BASIS is geared to the average to above average student willing to put the work in to cope with the curriculum. It's not a GT program by any stretch of the imagination. Moreover, some BASIS 5th grade families are just looking for a viable place-holder before moving on to a more typical middle school, perhaps out of DC. That's their prerogative of course. Why not focus on what's likely to make your own kid happy rather than offering us all unsolicited advice?[/quote] Let's say your kid is choosing between 2 basketball camps. Your kid enjoys the game and knows the rules, but they are 4 feet 6 inches tall and 20 pounds overweight. They don't have much god given ability and they don't really want to work hard or have a work ethic. What they want is to be able to play some rec ball and get playing time. Choice A is a camp for 4 and 5 star recruits and kids who have a reasonable trajectory to playing D1 or D2 college ball on scholarship. Choice B is a rec camp where no one is playing college ball and everyone is guaranteed playing time. Choice B also has more drills and development time to improve core skills. Would it be "shaming" your kid to suggest that Choice B is a much better fit? Or would it be an acknowledgement of the reality of the kid's abilities, interests and circumstances and in the best interest of your kid? The irony of your reply is that it illustrates you and your kid are probably NOT a good fit for BASIS. It is a brutal environment that publicly acknowledges academic successes and tells kids who are not succeeding to "do better". It does high stakes testing and holds kids back if they don't perform. It is the antithesis of "everyone gets a trophy". When you attend your first awards ceremony and your kid who didn't get As and isn't top 15 or 5% has to sit there for an hour and watch classmates be called up and publicly lauded, you will be right back complaining that BASIS is "shaming your kid". If only someone would have told you what BASIS was like before you enrolled...[/quote]
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