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My kid is going to the BASIS charter school here in Austin this year. It is one of the highest rated in the state which is on its face good. But the more I go to these parent sessions the more the entire program disturbs me.

The BASIS Charter School system is designed from the ground up to game university admissions. They don't say this but it is as clear as day. As Austin is Austin most students there are Indians. Unsurprisingly they flock to this nonsense. They had one of the juniors come talk to us and he is like "I've been in Robotics Club, Mathletes, Science Club, and something else since I was 6 years old!" This is nothing more than performative bullshit to build a paper trail to make your application look better with extracurriculars. I hate this. My kid is just going to resent me for making her do two or three times the work her entire time in K12.

I told my wife that we can try it this year but if she hates it she can go to regular school next year. I am all about letting kids do what actually interests them and forcing them into things they don't care about solely to optimize something a decade down the road is not something I am willing to do.
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To be fair they aren’t going to bring some kid that’s like “yo I used chatGPT and play League of Legends all day” to parade in front of the new parents
 
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TJT said:
My kid is going to the BASIS charter school here in Austin this year. It is one of the highest rated in the state which is on its face good. But the more I go to these parent sessions the more the entire program disturbs me.

The BASIS Charter School system is designed from the ground up to game university admissions. They don't say this but it is as clear as day. As Austin is Austin most students there are Indians. Unsurprisingly they flock to this nonsense. They had one of the juniors come talk to us and he is like "I've been in Robotics Club, Mathletes, Science Club, and something else since I was 6 years old!" This is nothing more than performative bullshit to build a paper trail to make your application look better with extracurriculars. I hate this. My kid is just going to resent me for making her do two or three times the work her entire time in K12.

I told my wife that we can try it this year but if she hates it she can go to regular school next year. I am all about letting kids do what actually interests them and forcing them into things they don't care about solely to optimize something a decade down the road is not something I am willing to do.
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My daughter will be starting at a charter high school this coming year. I've noticed a lot of similarities to your experience, except replace Indian with Turkish. So far the redeeming factor is the average student (or at least their parents) want them to be there. The stereotypical fuck up kids with absentee parents aren't around and can still be found at the closest high school to their house.
 
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Not what I mean. I've been talking to the parents going there. All of them have the plan to do exactly that. I have neighbors making their kids do the same shit. It's performative. I have some other neighbors going to the local school and it just has less of that, obviously.

Thankfully the local ISD is an upper middle class suburb that doesn't have some dumbass program of bussing in poors with shit parents to the school. I don't really have concerns with going to a nog school or anything.
 
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TJT said:
Not what I mean. I've been talking to the parents going there. All of them have the plan to do exactly that. I have neighbors making their kids do the same shit. It's performative. I have some other neighbors going to the local school and it just has less of that, obviously.

Thankfully the local ISD is an upper middle class suburb that doesn't have some dumbass program of bussing in poors with shit parents to the school. I don't really have concerns with going to a nog school or anything.
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Unless you have verified that the school is blue hair free, public schools in urban areas, even in TX, is a bad idea. There is a lot of value learning how to grind the system, even if it is a lot of performative bullshit. That is 1000% of what politics and society is, and 5000% of what corporate jobs are.
 
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TJT said:
My kid is going to the BASIS charter school here in Austin this year. It is one of the highest rated in the state which is on its face good. But the more I go to these parent sessions the more the entire program disturbs me.

The BASIS Charter School system is designed from the ground up to game university admissions. They don't say this but it is as clear as day. As Austin is Austin most students there are Indians. Unsurprisingly they flock to this nonsense. They had one of the juniors come talk to us and he is like "I've been in Robotics Club, Mathletes, Science Club, and something else since I was 6 years old!" This is nothing more than performative bullshit to build a paper trail to make your application look better with extracurriculars. I hate this. My kid is just going to resent me for making her do two or three times the work her entire time in K12.

I told my wife that we can try it this year but if she hates it she can go to regular school next year. I am all about letting kids do what actually interests them and forcing them into things they don't care about solely to optimize something a decade down the road is not something I am willing to do.
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I haven’t found that any of that mattered for my older boys, they went to regular public school (yes, HP, but regular public school), didn’t really do any particular extracurriculars (middle kid was on varsity basketball but I don’t think they care about that), went to UTD, did no particular extracurriculars, and both of them got into dental school.

They used to tell us we needed to do national honor society and all that in high school, turned out none of it mattered. If you want to go to an ivy league or top school maybe but those places are all hellholes now anyway so why bother?
 
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