BASIS student, have they left the school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who said anything about students failing in "large numbers" in this thread? Nowhere was that said.

17:07.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who said anything about students failing in "large numbers" in this thread? Nowhere was that said.

17:07.

They suggested that "If" students are failing in large numbers it was a failure, not that they had evidence that they were.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the students are failing in large numbers, then, obviously BASIS is failing. Sad to hear it happening so soon. Didn't they just open this year?

If that sounds speculative to you, there's no arguing.

[Anonymous]

It's the same old story.

Started out with talk of one child leaving...

Then, some speculation added about why that child left, with a possible reason being the child was failing...

Not unusual or controversial that one or a few students may leave a school, for reasons that may include failing, or instead that there may be other reasons, like family or social reasons.

And 17:07 then somehow leapt to the conclusion that a "large number" of students were failing.

Seems to be this obsessive compulsion to keep speculating, leaping to conclusions and using successive rounds of even more speculating and leaping to conclusions which build upon each other to come up with these spun-out-of-control yarns around here... Hey, I heard some big guy named Paul Bunyan was spotted at the school chasing after an enormous ox.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the same old story.

Started out with talk of one child leaving...

Then, some speculation added about why that child left, with a possible reason being the child was failing...

Not unusual or controversial that one or a few students may leave a school, for reasons that may include failing, or instead that there may be other reasons, like family or social reasons.

And 17:07 then somehow leapt to the conclusion that a "large number" of students were failing.

Seems to be this obsessive compulsion to keep speculating, leaping to conclusions and using successive rounds of even more speculating and leaping to conclusions which build upon each other to come up with these spun-out-of-control yarns around here... Hey, I heard some big guy named Paul Bunyan was spotted at the school chasing after an enormous ox.

And I heard that one of the BASIS teachers, Mrs. O'Leary, had an oil lantern in her classroom that got kicked over by the ox during the chase last night, and it burned down half the city. No, really... It's true!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Who said anything about students failing in "large numbers" in this thread? Nowhere was that said.

17:07.


They suggested that "If" students are failing in large numbers it was a failure, not that they had evidence that they were.

Exactly. 17:07 said IF there are students failing in large numbers, than Basis is failing them. Which is true.

That said, that doesn't seem to be the case, now. How many students are in each class? That would help everyone determine whether there are "large numbers" failing or not. Hopefully, of course, this is just an anomaly. Everyone wants Basis to succeed and it will if it can teach its students effectively. Go Basis!

[Anonymous]

Dear Basis,

Thank you for being the Kim Kardashian of public schools in DC. It is so much more comfortable in the shade.

Love,

Yu Ying

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dear Basis,

Thank you for being the Kim Kardashian of public schools in DC. It is so much more comfortable in the shade.

Love,

Yu Ying

How silly you sound, PP.

[Anonymous]

I thought PP was funny.

[Anonymous]

Flavor of the day. The vain battle to trash charters seems to have now moved on to SELA.

[Anonymous]

I thought the YY poster was mean and sophomoric. Very typical of YY.

[Anonymous]

why do you think that was written by a YY community member?? you should know better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard they "encouraged" a special ed student to leave before classes even started.

Yes, they did. Many of us on Capitol Hill know the family. The brilliant child tested into 5th grade algebra. If it happens to at least one other family, there will be op-ed pieces. Shame on Basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard they "encouraged" a special ed student to leave before classes even started.

Yes, they did. Many of us on Capitol Hill know the family. The brilliant child tested into 5th grade algebra. If it happens to at least one other family, there will be op-ed pieces. Shame on Basis.

I'm afraid you lost me...

[Anonymous]

I think the mother should have kept her child at Basis. It would have given her a better chance of getting her child a private placement.