BASIS DC precomps and comps

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It is YOU that have put your children in this position and crippled their futures!!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Like other posters say, comps really aren't that big of deal -- it's just learning a different way to study. Once you've got that, it's pretty easy. My kid has done them and hasn't lost any joy in learning.

So good to hear. It is sad that students at all other schools are not held accountable and there's no consequence for failing a class. Students move to the next grade no matter what.

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BASIS isn't a big deal academically, period.

[Anonymous]

Did BASIS actually say they are matching DCPS salaries? I thought I heard Rose say they were going to increase salaries based on years/experience/performance to be more in line with DCPS. Just wondering if he actually said they would match.

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Anonymous wrote:Did BASIS actually say they are matching DCPS salaries? I thought I heard Rose say they were going to increase salaries based on years/experience/performance to be more in line with DCPS. Just wondering if he actually said they would match.

not a match, but a substantial raise

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Anonymous wrote:Hmmm idk DCPS PTO Parent you might be better off investing your time/energy at a DCPS middle school.

If it’s the LT PTO President, I would never bet against her. Assume other PTO Presidents are similar. Just need one willing to challenge BASIS’ normal MO with substantial $$.

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It's just not going to happen. BASIS parents simply can't raise money without admins calling the shots on how it's spent. Impossible. If BASIS admins don't care for your family and want you gone before high school, they have their ways of making you miserable. This is an old story.

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Anonymous wrote:It's just not going to happen. BASIS parents simply can't raise money without admins calling the shots on how it's spent. Impossible. If BASIS admins don't care for your family and want you gone before high school, they have their ways of making you miserable. This is an old story.

Ooh do tell!

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Anonymous wrote:It's just not going to happen. BASIS parents simply can't raise money without admins calling the shots on how it's spent. Impossible.

If BASIS admins don't care for your family and want you gone before high school, they have their ways of making you miserable. This is an old story.

These seem like very different concepts. Both are true, but conflation is weird here.

[Anonymous]

Why is it weird? Assert yourself as a BASIS parent and risk pissing off admins and paying a price. Maybe things have turned a corner with a parent group successfully lobbying for teachers pay to improve, maybe not.

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If BASIS DC wanted parents and teachers to have a say in how things run, admins would have worked with the school community to set up a PTO years ago. They didn't and they don't. Yet parent satisfaction remains high, at least according to the parent surveys the school does annually. So why bother with more parent input?

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it weird? Assert yourself as a BASIS parent and risk pissing off admins and paying a price. Maybe things have turned a corner with a parent group successfully lobbying for teachers pay to improve, maybe not.

What are they going to do to you? Seriously. They can’t do anything.

[Anonymous]

One is the school not wanting input. The second is the school deciding your kid is a bad fit. I have never heard of the school punishing a student for a parent’s behavior.

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Come on, anybody who's been at BASIS for 6, 7, 8 years knows what's being alluded to here. BASIS picks it horses early on, the math stars, kids with a good shot of cracking Ivies, MIT etc. Other students aren't treated as well over time. Their parents aren't inclined to rock the boat. That's the reality.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't what you're alluding to. Please explain.

I can tell you that there's growing concern in the hs parent community about inter-connected issues: inadequate teacher pay, what looks like a higher drop off rate to Walls than in the past, unimpressive hs ecs as compared to ms ecs and this year's somewhat disappointing admissions results.

In the last few years, hs parents grew accustomed to seeing ivy admits, mainly for Yale, Harvard and Princeton. It's not lost on us that Walls and JR had ivy successes this year, and not just for low SES minority applicants or recruited athletes (mostly from the JR crew team).

We wouldn't be as concerned if the head of school didn't blow off our concerns as a general rule. Some of us, particularly those with hs students with ms sibs, are hoping that he leaves. He's much more interested in the ms than the hs, which has become a problem.

Odd post. If you were actually a BASIS parent you'd know that they are going to start matching DCPS pay scale. So either you are another troll or so disengaged that seems like we should dismiss what you have to say. Also, # of BASIS kids matriculating to Walls is down, not up.

There are certainly things about BASIS I would improve. I prefer to focus on reality. But hey, you do you.

NP. OK, but where are you getting up-to-the-minute status on the # of BASIS 8th Graders heading to Walls this year? We're under the impression that more are leaving for Walls this year than last, but then we're not looking at...data.

I'll believe BASIS matching DCPS pay scale and benefits for long serving teachers if that happens. The evidence suggests that BASIS can't afford/sustain staff outlays on that level. Come on, matching DCPS starting salaries is one thing. A DC charter keeping older teachers on what DCPS pays them is another.

You might want to calling posters names when their carefully observed impressions of BASIS are different than yours.

So, to summarize, the school publicly says they are going to match DCPS and you "don't believe it"? You go on to say that facts are the same as impressions as long as the facts don't comport with your impressions? There is no point in having discussions with people like you. Why not just reply FAKE NEWS.

The more I read DCUM, the more I realize the DC liberals who predominate parrot MAGA "logic".

I'm not the poster you're responding to but am a BASIS parent (heading into the high school). I also see problems with BASIS announcing that they're planning to match DCPS salaries because DC charters don't get the same per student outlays as DCPS. Their outlays are at least 15% lower across the board.

Now that BASIS is going to BASIS starts paying young teachers like DCPS, something's gotta give eventually. To my knowledge, BASIS DC doesn't have a strong track record of fundraising to draw in private grants to top up its public funding. There's concern in the parent community that what's going to happen once teachers salaries match DCPS is that parents are going to have to make up the difference to avoid cuts to ECs and other forms of enrichment. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out. Some of us don't know what to believe. Yea, we've embraced MAGA logic for sure.

Human capital expenditures need to be funded with committed dollars. No school can or would sign contracts without budgetary commitments. They can't and won't sign contracts with the hope of making up a shortfalls later. That's why the fundraised dollars aren't distributed as bonuses until end of year when they know how much funding they have.

Sorry if the MAGA line hit close to home. When you express hardened, ill informed opinions based on fears not grounded in laws, finance and feels a lot like the the Orange Monster's peeps.

You don't have to come off as an arrogant jackass to make valid points. Some of us have been at BASIS long enough to doubt that positive change is coming. Granted, the budgetary commitments have been made to improve teachers pay significantly. We've heard this from admins, no orange monsters involved. But since the school has essentially been run on a shoestring budget since the get go, PPs are shrewd to predict that the result will invariably involve painful cuts elsewhere. On balance, better teachers pay may not improve the BASIS student experience overall. Be careful what you wish for.

Trying to follow here. You complain all over DCUM that BASIS doesn't pay its teachers well and they leave in droves for DCPS (not factual, but that's another story entirely). The school commits to paying teachers more and you complain that somehow paying them more isn't a good thing? Or will make it worse?