Anonymous
12/17/2012 16:25
Subject: Parents are pulling their children out of Basis FAST!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: AZ Basis students can often have all requirements met ahead of time, to graduate a year early and go straight into college before 12th grade.
In all of this discussion, I haven't really heard anyone address the question is this even good for kids? Personally, I don't think I really want my kids to go to college before 18. Also, the film "Race to No Where" really made me stop and consider what I really wanted for my children's education. Pressure cooker? I don't think so. I wonder if AZ Basis tracks whether kids finish college? or take time off? (both brought up in the film). My DH and I both have advanced degrees and attended top universities, but neither of us had an as intensive a HS career as kids seem to have now. I don't think it is necessarily bad for kids in DC to have the choice of Basis, just not sure it is the direction I want to point my kids.
What "race to nowhere"? Most of the schools around the DC area have been gravitating toward the opposite end of the spectrum, graduating a huge percentage of kids who can barely read or do math. And professors around the area even bemoan some of the underpreparedness of kids coming from the supposedly "better" college prep schools. It's actually a refreshing change to see an opportunity for kids to actually be well prepared for college and the future. Of course, it may not be for everyone, and nobody's forcing it on anyone. If what you consider to be the "race to nowhere" isn't for you, you are welcome to take the other path, one guaranteed to lead to nowhere but with a lot fewer expectations - DCPS.
