Why are you sending your child to Basis?

[Anonymous]

Some parents have unrealistic expectations of their children and think that anyone who tries to hold their child back is really cheating them in some way.

HOpefully very few of those parents will apply to BASIS. If they do, there will be trouble when their kids can't meet the academic expectations

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, Basis can't refuse anybody as keeps getting pointed out repeatedly, and which nobody has disputed or disagreed with- but to the poster who insists on making that point over and over and over ad nauseaum, again, the achievement expectations at Basis are clear, to include taking a large number of AP courses. As such, how would it ever make sense for someone to send their child who might not be capable of taking AP courses to Basis? Yes, anyone can send their child to Basis, and yes, Basis has to take any child - but does it make sense? If a child isn't going to college, then t's wasting his or her time to send him or her for AP courses. The rationale and reasoning of sending a child to Basis merely because you are fleeing bad DCPS schools only underscores how bad the DCPS system is and underscores the fact that there is a need for an alternative; those who attack charters ultimately only end up strengthening the case for why charters are needed.

It's not hard to understand. The law is that every public school has to accept every student and then accommodate that student's needs. It's pretty simple.

If you want an exclusive school, you have choices: 1) private, 2) magnet.

Charter exclusivity is not an option.

Why is this simple fact (presented over and over and over and OVER again) so difficult for you to comprehend? And, considering those circumstances (you being so dim) what makes you think your snowflake has the intellectual aptitude for a rigorous education anyway?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, Basis can't refuse anybody as keeps getting pointed out repeatedly, and which nobody has disputed or disagreed with- but to the poster who insists on making that point over and over and over ad nauseaum, again, the achievement expectations at Basis are clear, to include taking a large number of AP courses. As such, how would it ever make sense for someone to send their child who might not be capable of taking AP courses to Basis? Yes, anyone can send their child to Basis, and yes, Basis has to take any child - but does it make sense? If a child isn't going to college, then t's wasting his or her time to send him or her for AP courses. The rationale and reasoning of sending a child to Basis merely because you are fleeing bad DCPS schools only underscores how bad the DCPS system is and underscores the fact that there is a need for an alternative; those who attack charters ultimately only end up strengthening the case for why charters are needed.

It's not hard to understand. The law is that every public school has to accept every student and then accommodate that student's needs. It's pretty simple.

If you want an exclusive school, you have choices: 1) private, 2) magnet.

Charter exclusivity is not an option.

Why is this simple fact (presented over and over and over and OVER again) so difficult for you to comprehend? And, considering those circumstances (you being so dim) what makes you think your snowflake has the intellectual aptitude for a rigorous education anyway?

PP, please cite the law that requires DC charter schools to accommodate every student's needs.

I have been unable to find it, but would love to read it.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_Restrictive_Environment

Schools are required to educate students in a least restrictive environment. That means that if a student goes to Basis and has a learning disability then the student is still a student at that school. They must educate the child and can't counsel them out or deny them education. It is federal and District law.

[Anonymous]

Seems to me there are some persistent trollers here, no doubt directly invested in some other part of the system who are intimidated by the fact that finally schools like Basis will finally be meeting the unmet needs of DC students who have college potential.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me there are some persistent trollers here, no doubt directly invested in some other part of the system who are intimidated by the fact that finally schools like Basis will finally be meeting the unmet needs of DC students who have college potential.

I agree It is as if they only want "one size fits all" education that is geared toward the lowest common denominator and no choices in DC.

If there were no choices in DC, then 41% of the DC student population would be stuck with lousy DC public schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me there are some persistent trollers here, no doubt directly invested in some other part of the system who are intimidated by the fact that finally schools like Basis will finally be meeting the unmet needs of DC students who have college potential.

Exactly!
I am not interested in sending my child to any Ivy but I want him to be educated. I grew up overseas and went to various schools in several countries. I had good teachers and not so good teachers. However the emphasis was always on teaching and learning. There was transparency in what was expected from students. There was transparency in what the lesson the teacher was presenting.

Every time I try to know what is being done in my child's classroom, I get a very vague answer. Every time I ask the teachers for some thing specific, it's some general long range plan I hear about. Homework is quite scant. And then, there are so many of these fancy graphic organizers to fill out and cut and paste activities and so on. Everything seems to be subjective. I don't understand why upper elementary has to have such little content.
No wonder many children are learning next to nothing in school.
BASIS seems to have a clear objective -- educate kids and set high expectations. Any kid without too many learning disabilities should be able to make it, if enough time is spent studying to master the material. Is that so bad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_Restrictive_Environment

Schools are required to educate students in a least restrictive environment. That means that if a student goes to Basis and has a learning disability then the student is still a student at that school. They must educate the child and can't counsel them out or deny them education. It is federal and District law.

PP, the least restrictive environment principle only applies to students with a documented disability covered by IDEA.

Earlier you, or another PP, posted the following:

It's not hard to understand. The law is that every public school has to accept every student and then accommodate that student's needs. It's pretty simple.

In response, I posted the following:

PP, please cite the law that requires DC charter schools to accommodate every student's needs.

IDEA does not require DC charter schools to accommodate the needs of all students, only of those students with disabilities covered by IDEA.

Can you cite a law that applies to all students?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me there are some persistent trollers here, no doubt directly invested in some other part of the system who are intimidated by the fact that finally schools like Basis will finally be meeting the unmet needs of DC students who have college potential.

Nobody's intimidated, hon. Latin and Deal have been around for a while.

People are just very clear on the fact that it is not legal to counsel a student out for academic under-performance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me there are some persistent trollers here, no doubt directly invested in some other part of the system who are intimidated by the fact that finally schools like Basis will finally be meeting the unmet needs of DC students who have college potential.

Nobody's intimidated, hon. Latin and Deal have been around for a while.

People are just very clear on the fact that it is not legal to counsel a student out for academic under-performance.

So say you. Can you offer any authority for this claim?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me there are some persistent trollers here, no doubt directly invested in some other part of the system who are intimidated by the fact that finally schools like Basis will finally be meeting the unmet needs of DC students who have college potential.

Nobody's intimidated, hon. Latin and Deal have been around for a while.

People are just very clear on the fact that it is not legal to counsel a student out for academic under-performance.

As I hear it, Latin's one of the schools losing a lot of students to Basis.

[Anonymous]

Yes, Basis can't refuse anybody as keeps getting pointed out repeatedly, and which nobody has disputed or disagreed with- but to the poster who insists on making that point over and over and over ad nauseaum, again, the achievement expectations at Basis are clear, to include taking a large number of AP courses. As such, how would it ever make sense for someone to send their child who might not be capable of taking AP courses to Basis? Yes, anyone can send their child to Basis, and yes, Basis has to take any child - but does it make sense? If a child isn't going to college, then t's wasting his or her time to send him or her for AP courses. The rationale and reasoning of sending a child to Basis merely because you are fleeing bad DCPS schools only underscores how bad the DCPS system is and underscores the fact that there is a need for an alternative; those who attack charters ultimately only end up strengthening the case for why charters are needed.


For the same reason people are planning to send their kids to a Hebrew immersion school, when very few, if any, will grow up to use the language in their daily life. Parents are trying to get out of their neighborhood schools, and they will pick any charter they can to make that happen. The problem that it creates for BASIS is when they try to live up to these promises of 8 APs. If, according to some salivating posters on this thread, kids can't keep up and should decamp to leave the school for some imagined population of frustrated GT students to have as their own, BASIS is going to need a strategy to keep the doors open. They will need to hope that in this small city, with demographics dissimilar to Tucson, they can find the population they claim success with to keep themselves open without compromise or remediation.

Time will tell.

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