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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What if it's not taking other kids this long to do work?  He's smart, advanced on all his SOL tests, but jeez o pete! They all give him work to do and there is no time to do anything here at home.  We really have no choice but to stick it out since there really are no other good options for him to go where we live.  He gets home around 5 and we eat dinner and we start work at 6.  We don't get finished up till 8:30 or 9.  I sit with him so he doesn't get overwhelmed and I keep him focused.  I asked him about his AE hour and I don't think he's using his time wisely in that class. He said he will do his math in AE from now on, so that was a good suggestion, I appreciate it.

I just really don't know what the school can do about us complaining that it's too much.  Haven't kids had this load at this school before for a few years now?  They won't change the amount of homework because "HE" is taking so long to do it, I am sure, :(

He missed a couple days his first week because he was sick and he was so far behind.  It was so stressful to catch up and get all the notes he needed so he wouldn't do poorly on the tests so he had to stay in student hours after school plus do is pile of homework.  I just hope this lets up a bit.  [/quote]

You can not be sick at Basis for more than a day or two.  Whenever my DC has been really sick, his grades suffer for that grading period.  [/quote]

I find all of this really worrisome. I was holding out hope that Basis could work for my child, but the school just seems so extreme. My son does well in all school subjects and is particularly good at math. He loves learning and always asks for extra work because he thinks it's [i]fun[/i]. I worry that Basis will suck the life and the love of learning right out of him. 3 hours of homework every night at age 10? That is sheer craziness, and any reasonable person knows it. Of course I want him to stay ahead in math, but I absolutely do not want him taking AP Calculus as an 8th grader. Why would I want him to take a college-readiness course when he's 13? There's plenty of time for that in high school. I want him to excel in math & science while also having excellent courses in history, literature, and the arts, and time to write for the school newspaper, play sports (even travel sports!), play in the band/orchestra, etc.

Can't we have a middle school--aside from Deal, which isn't accessible to most of us--that offers some acceleration for kids in certain subjects AND other excellent classes and extra-curriculars that allow them to develop [i]as people,[/i] while not expecting them to jump on this insane roller coaster of AP classes for 12- and 13-year-olds? Why is everything all or nothing in this town? 
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