Basis DC

[Anonymous]

It’s not just the silent lunch in a dark windowless lunch room. It is the high stakes testing, cramped building, ever smaller number of peers and the sometimes poor teaching. There are some excellent teachers. What sucks is when there are poor teachers who get fired or leave mid year the kids who are harmed by this do not get adequate support to catch up, and the high stakes tests don’t change. So it is a cumulative bummer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not just the silent lunch in a dark windowless lunch room. It is the high stakes testing, cramped building, ever smaller number of peers and the sometimes poor teaching. There are some excellent teachers. What sucks is when there are poor teachers who get fired or leave mid year the kids who are harmed by this do not get adequate support to catch up, and the high stakes tests don’t change. So it is a cumulative bummer.

Disagree. Huge advantage of all charters vs DCPS is ability to dump bad teachers mid-year. At DCPS they'd be dead weight for years and years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not just the silent lunch in a dark windowless lunch room. It is the high stakes testing, cramped building, ever smaller number of peers and the sometimes poor teaching. There are some excellent teachers. What sucks is when there are poor teachers who get fired or leave mid year the kids who are harmed by this do not get adequate support to catch up, and the high stakes tests don’t change. So it is a cumulative bummer.

Disagree. Huge advantage of all charters vs DCPS is ability to dump bad teachers mid-year. At DCPS they'd be dead weight for years and years.

I am not saying that the teachers should not have been fired. Or that the curriculum shouldn’t keep the same pace. Just keeping the same pace of curriculum WITHOUT adequate teaching or extra support from other parts of the school when there is a terrible teacher who gets fired punishes the kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding the trolls people.

do you think the silent lunch stuff is a troll? people seem to be pretty clear it happened

The trolls are the people who are claiming it doesn’t happen. Email the school and ask. After parents complained last year, the school sent a defensive email justifying silent lunch as a time of “reflection.”

No. The trolls are the people exaggerating the prevalence of silent lunch and/or equating it to galley slavery or child abuse. These are people who don’t have kids at Basis or have disruptive kids at the school.

Normal parents at Basis aren’t even thinking about it.

My kids have spent years at Basis and never had a silent lunch. And if they had, they would have just read a book and moved on.

LOL this is true. BASIS parent and I don't care about a few silent lunches. Seems kind of relaxing? And I VASTLY prefer it to the chaos of the Title 1 DCPS where he spent elementary.

+1 My kids are at basis and have had silent lunches. I don't like group consequences. I told the school this. They told me too bad. I got over it. My kids were annoyed and got over it within a day. There is a small but vocal group of parents who harp on this. By 8th grade kids leave the building for lunch and go wherever they want. I expect to see posts from these same people complaining how cruel it is to force Deal, Hardy and JR kids to breathe recycled air during lunch.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not just the silent lunch in a dark windowless lunch room. It is the high stakes testing, cramped building, ever smaller number of peers and the sometimes poor teaching. There are some excellent teachers. What sucks is when there are poor teachers who get fired or leave mid year the kids who are harmed by this do not get adequate support to catch up, and the high stakes tests don’t change. So it is a cumulative bummer.

Disagree. Huge advantage of all charters vs DCPS is ability to dump bad teachers mid-year. At DCPS they'd be dead weight for years and years.

I dunno, DCPS shuffles teachers in and out like they're some kind of freaky for-profit trying to squeeze enough money out of the taxpayers to make their staggering debt payments.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding the trolls people.

do you think the silent lunch stuff is a troll? people seem to be pretty clear it happened

The trolls are the people who are claiming it doesn’t happen. Email the school and ask. After parents complained last year, the school sent a defensive email justifying silent lunch as a time of “reflection.”

No. The trolls are the people exaggerating the prevalence of silent lunch and/or equating it to galley slavery or child abuse. These are people who don’t have kids at Basis or have disruptive kids at the school.

Normal parents at Basis aren’t even thinking about it.

My kids have spent years at Basis and never had a silent lunch. And if they had, they would have just read a book and moved on.

LOL this is true. BASIS parent and I don't care about a few silent lunches. Seems kind of relaxing? And I VASTLY prefer it to the chaos of the Title 1 DCPS where he spent elementary.

+1 My kids are at basis and have had silent lunches. I don't like group consequences. I told the school this. They told me too bad. I got over it. My kids were annoyed and got over it within a day. There is a small but vocal group of parents who harp on this. By 8th grade kids leave the building for lunch and go wherever they want. I expect to see posts from these same people complaining how cruel it is to force Deal, Hardy and JR kids to breathe recycled air during lunch.

Wait, so they have weird Dickensian punishments, tell parents to eff off... but when the kids turn 13, they let them loose in the city? Huh?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding the trolls people.

do you think the silent lunch stuff is a troll? people seem to be pretty clear it happened

The trolls are the people who are claiming it doesn’t happen. Email the school and ask. After parents complained last year, the school sent a defensive email justifying silent lunch as a time of “reflection.”

No. The trolls are the people exaggerating the prevalence of silent lunch and/or equating it to galley slavery or child abuse. These are people who don’t have kids at Basis or have disruptive kids at the school.

Normal parents at Basis aren’t even thinking about it.

My kids have spent years at Basis and never had a silent lunch. And if they had, they would have just read a book and moved on.

LOL this is true. BASIS parent and I don't care about a few silent lunches. Seems kind of relaxing? And I VASTLY prefer it to the chaos of the Title 1 DCPS where he spent elementary.

+1 My kids are at basis and have had silent lunches. I don't like group consequences. I told the school this. They told me too bad. I got over it. My kids were annoyed and got over it within a day. There is a small but vocal group of parents who harp on this. By 8th grade kids leave the building for lunch and go wherever they want. I expect to see posts from these same people complaining how cruel it is to force Deal, Hardy and JR kids to breathe recycled air during lunch.

Wait, so they have weird Dickensian punishments, tell parents to eff off... but when the kids turn 13, they let them loose in the city? Huh?

Silent lunch a few times is Dickensian?

Why don’t you eff off, troll.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not just the silent lunch in a dark windowless lunch room. It is the high stakes testing, cramped building, ever smaller number of peers and the sometimes poor teaching. There are some excellent teachers. What sucks is when there are poor teachers who get fired or leave mid year the kids who are harmed by this do not get adequate support to catch up, and the high stakes tests don’t change. So it is a cumulative bummer.

Disagree. Huge advantage of all charters vs DCPS is ability to dump bad teachers mid-year. At DCPS they'd be dead weight for years and years.

+1. Plenty of good and bad teachers at DCPS schools like Walls and they can’t get rid of the bad ones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding the trolls people.

do you think the silent lunch stuff is a troll? people seem to be pretty clear it happened

The trolls are the people who are claiming it doesn’t happen. Email the school and ask. After parents complained last year, the school sent a defensive email justifying silent lunch as a time of “reflection.”

No. The trolls are the people exaggerating the prevalence of silent lunch and/or equating it to galley slavery or child abuse. These are people who don’t have kids at Basis or have disruptive kids at the school.

Normal parents at Basis aren’t even thinking about it.

My kids have spent years at Basis and never had a silent lunch. And if they had, they would have just read a book and moved on.

LOL this is true. BASIS parent and I don't care about a few silent lunches. Seems kind of relaxing? And I VASTLY prefer it to the chaos of the Title 1 DCPS where he spent elementary.

+1 My kids are at basis and have had silent lunches. I don't like group consequences. I told the school this. They told me too bad. I got over it. My kids were annoyed and got over it within a day. There is a small but vocal group of parents who harp on this. By 8th grade kids leave the building for lunch and go wherever they want. I expect to see posts from these same people complaining how cruel it is to force Deal, Hardy and JR kids to breathe recycled air during lunch.

Wait, so they have weird Dickensian punishments, tell parents to eff off... but when the kids turn 13, they let them loose in the city? Huh?

Too funny. Get over your persecution complex. It's like 8 or 9 silent lunches over a school year. Your snowflake kid is going to have a hard time in life if they inherit their parents' persecution complex and sheltered worldview. If you really think this is Dickensian then WTH is your kid still there???!!! (Spoiler Alert: because you are a drama queen and know this isn't nearly as big a deal as you pretend.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding the trolls people.

do you think the silent lunch stuff is a troll? people seem to be pretty clear it happened

The trolls are the people who are claiming it doesn’t happen. Email the school and ask. After parents complained last year, the school sent a defensive email justifying silent lunch as a time of “reflection.”

No. The trolls are the people exaggerating the prevalence of silent lunch and/or equating it to galley slavery or child abuse. These are people who don’t have kids at Basis or have disruptive kids at the school.

Normal parents at Basis aren’t even thinking about it.

My kids have spent years at Basis and never had a silent lunch. And if they had, they would have just read a book and moved on.

LOL this is true. BASIS parent and I don't care about a few silent lunches. Seems kind of relaxing? And I VASTLY prefer it to the chaos of the Title 1 DCPS where he spent elementary.

+1 My kids are at basis and have had silent lunches. I don't like group consequences. I told the school this. They told me too bad. I got over it. My kids were annoyed and got over it within a day. There is a small but vocal group of parents who harp on this. By 8th grade kids leave the building for lunch and go wherever they want. I expect to see posts from these same people complaining how cruel it is to force Deal, Hardy and JR kids to breathe recycled air during lunch.

Wait, so they have weird Dickensian punishments, tell parents to eff off... but when the kids turn 13, they let them loose in the city? Huh?

Too funny. Get over your persecution complex. It's like 8 or 9 silent lunches over a school year. Your snowflake kid is going to have a hard time in life if they inherit their parents' persecution complex and sheltered worldview. If you really think this is Dickensian then WTH is your kid still there???!!! (Spoiler Alert: because you are a drama queen and know this isn't nearly as big a deal as you pretend.)

I would never send a kid there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding the trolls people.

do you think the silent lunch stuff is a troll? people seem to be pretty clear it happened

The trolls are the people who are claiming it doesn’t happen. Email the school and ask. After parents complained last year, the school sent a defensive email justifying silent lunch as a time of “reflection.”

No. The trolls are the people exaggerating the prevalence of silent lunch and/or equating it to galley slavery or child abuse. These are people who don’t have kids at Basis or have disruptive kids at the school.

Normal parents at Basis aren’t even thinking about it.

My kids have spent years at Basis and never had a silent lunch. And if they had, they would have just read a book and moved on.

LOL this is true. BASIS parent and I don't care about a few silent lunches. Seems kind of relaxing? And I VASTLY prefer it to the chaos of the Title 1 DCPS where he spent elementary.

+1 My kids are at basis and have had silent lunches. I don't like group consequences. I told the school this. They told me too bad. I got over it. My kids were annoyed and got over it within a day. There is a small but vocal group of parents who harp on this. By 8th grade kids leave the building for lunch and go wherever they want. I expect to see posts from these same people complaining how cruel it is to force Deal, Hardy and JR kids to breathe recycled air during lunch.

Wait, so they have weird Dickensian punishments, tell parents to eff off... but when the kids turn 13, they let them loose in the city? Huh?

Too funny. Get over your persecution complex. It's like 8 or 9 silent lunches over a school year. Your snowflake kid is going to have a hard time in life if they inherit their parents' persecution complex and sheltered worldview. If you really think this is Dickensian then WTH is your kid still there???!!! (Spoiler Alert: because you are a drama queen and know this isn't nearly as big a deal as you pretend.)

I would never send a kid there.

Great. The school is not for everyone. Enjoy your other options.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding the trolls people.

do you think the silent lunch stuff is a troll? people seem to be pretty clear it happened

The trolls are the people who are claiming it doesn’t happen. Email the school and ask. After parents complained last year, the school sent a defensive email justifying silent lunch as a time of “reflection.”

No. The trolls are the people exaggerating the prevalence of silent lunch and/or equating it to galley slavery or child abuse. These are people who don’t have kids at Basis or have disruptive kids at the school.

Normal parents at Basis aren’t even thinking about it.

My kids have spent years at Basis and never had a silent lunch. And if they had, they would have just read a book and moved on.

LOL this is true. BASIS parent and I don't care about a few silent lunches. Seems kind of relaxing? And I VASTLY prefer it to the chaos of the Title 1 DCPS where he spent elementary.

+1 My kids are at basis and have had silent lunches. I don't like group consequences. I told the school this. They told me too bad. I got over it. My kids were annoyed and got over it within a day. There is a small but vocal group of parents who harp on this. By 8th grade kids leave the building for lunch and go wherever they want. I expect to see posts from these same people complaining how cruel it is to force Deal, Hardy and JR kids to breathe recycled air during lunch.

Wait, so they have weird Dickensian punishments, tell parents to eff off... but when the kids turn 13, they let them loose in the city? Huh?

Too funny. Get over your persecution complex. It's like 8 or 9 silent lunches over a school year. Your snowflake kid is going to have a hard time in life if they inherit their parents' persecution complex and sheltered worldview. If you really think this is Dickensian then WTH is your kid still there???!!! (Spoiler Alert: because you are a drama queen and know this isn't nearly as big a deal as you pretend.)

I would never send a kid there.

Great. The school is not for everyone. Enjoy your other options.

Uh, yeah, I pay for that school. And I don't want to pay for garbage like that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding the trolls people.

do you think the silent lunch stuff is a troll? people seem to be pretty clear it happened

The trolls are the people who are claiming it doesn’t happen. Email the school and ask. After parents complained last year, the school sent a defensive email justifying silent lunch as a time of “reflection.”

No. The trolls are the people exaggerating the prevalence of silent lunch and/or equating it to galley slavery or child abuse. These are people who don’t have kids at Basis or have disruptive kids at the school.

Normal parents at Basis aren’t even thinking about it.

My kids have spent years at Basis and never had a silent lunch. And if they had, they would have just read a book and moved on.

LOL this is true. BASIS parent and I don't care about a few silent lunches. Seems kind of relaxing? And I VASTLY prefer it to the chaos of the Title 1 DCPS where he spent elementary.

+1 My kids are at basis and have had silent lunches. I don't like group consequences. I told the school this. They told me too bad. I got over it. My kids were annoyed and got over it within a day. There is a small but vocal group of parents who harp on this. By 8th grade kids leave the building for lunch and go wherever they want. I expect to see posts from these same people complaining how cruel it is to force Deal, Hardy and JR kids to breathe recycled air during lunch.

Wait, so they have weird Dickensian punishments, tell parents to eff off... but when the kids turn 13, they let them loose in the city? Huh?

Too funny. Get over your persecution complex. It's like 8 or 9 silent lunches over a school year. Your snowflake kid is going to have a hard time in life if they inherit their parents' persecution complex and sheltered worldview. If you really think this is Dickensian then WTH is your kid still there???!!! (Spoiler Alert: because you are a drama queen and know this isn't nearly as big a deal as you pretend.)

I would never send a kid there.

Great. The school is not for everyone. Enjoy your other options.

Uh, yeah, I pay for that school. And I don't want to pay for garbage like that.

Don't feed this troll.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding the trolls people.

do you think the silent lunch stuff is a troll? people seem to be pretty clear it happened

The trolls are the people who are claiming it doesn’t happen. Email the school and ask. After parents complained last year, the school sent a defensive email justifying silent lunch as a time of “reflection.”

No. The trolls are the people exaggerating the prevalence of silent lunch and/or equating it to galley slavery or child abuse. These are people who don’t have kids at Basis or have disruptive kids at the school.

Normal parents at Basis aren’t even thinking about it.

My kids have spent years at Basis and never had a silent lunch. And if they had, they would have just read a book and moved on.

LOL this is true. BASIS parent and I don't care about a few silent lunches. Seems kind of relaxing? And I VASTLY prefer it to the chaos of the Title 1 DCPS where he spent elementary.

+1 My kids are at basis and have had silent lunches. I don't like group consequences. I told the school this. They told me too bad. I got over it. My kids were annoyed and got over it within a day. There is a small but vocal group of parents who harp on this. By 8th grade kids leave the building for lunch and go wherever they want. I expect to see posts from these same people complaining how cruel it is to force Deal, Hardy and JR kids to breathe recycled air during lunch.

Wait, so they have weird Dickensian punishments, tell parents to eff off... but when the kids turn 13, they let them loose in the city? Huh?

Too funny. Get over your persecution complex. It's like 8 or 9 silent lunches over a school year. Your snowflake kid is going to have a hard time in life if they inherit their parents' persecution complex and sheltered worldview. If you really think this is Dickensian then WTH is your kid still there???!!! (Spoiler Alert: because you are a drama queen and know this isn't nearly as big a deal as you pretend.)

The poster is trolling and just an idiot.

Same guy that compared Basis students to galley slaves.

Next up: comparing Basis students to Gitmo inmates because having silent lunch a few times a year in some of the lower-school classes is just like waterboarding.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding the trolls people.

do you think the silent lunch stuff is a troll? people seem to be pretty clear it happened

The trolls are the people who are claiming it doesn’t happen. Email the school and ask. After parents complained last year, the school sent a defensive email justifying silent lunch as a time of “reflection.”

No. The trolls are the people exaggerating the prevalence of silent lunch and/or equating it to galley slavery or child abuse. These are people who don’t have kids at Basis or have disruptive kids at the school.

Normal parents at Basis aren’t even thinking about it.

My kids have spent years at Basis and never had a silent lunch. And if they had, they would have just read a book and moved on.

LOL this is true. BASIS parent and I don't care about a few silent lunches. Seems kind of relaxing? And I VASTLY prefer it to the chaos of the Title 1 DCPS where he spent elementary.

+1 My kids are at basis and have had silent lunches. I don't like group consequences. I told the school this. They told me too bad. I got over it. My kids were annoyed and got over it within a day. There is a small but vocal group of parents who harp on this. By 8th grade kids leave the building for lunch and go wherever they want. I expect to see posts from these same people complaining how cruel it is to force Deal, Hardy and JR kids to breathe recycled air during lunch.

Wait, so they have weird Dickensian punishments, tell parents to eff off... but when the kids turn 13, they let them loose in the city? Huh?

Too funny. Get over your persecution complex. It's like 8 or 9 silent lunches over a school year. Your snowflake kid is going to have a hard time in life if they inherit their parents' persecution complex and sheltered worldview. If you really think this is Dickensian then WTH is your kid still there???!!! (Spoiler Alert: because you are a drama queen and know this isn't nearly as big a deal as you pretend.)

I would never send a kid there.

Great. The school is not for everyone. Enjoy your other options.

Uh, yeah, I pay for that school. And I don't want to pay for garbage like that.

Don't feed this troll.

Why am I a troll? I live in this city, I pay taxes... sorry you don't like my viewpoint but it's as valid as yours.