BASIS DC shut down/abolished the school list serve

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I don't know anything about a yahoo group,

That is obvious.

Anonymous wrote: but presumably you have to have all the email addresses, which the moderator collected and typed in laboriously once already........ And which anyone starting a yahoo group will not have.

No. You start it. Anyone who wants to can join it. You'd need to publicize it, and if you wanted to keep it just to BASIS families you'd need some way to verify.

Anonymous wrote: Basis parents are busy.

If they're too busy to join a listserv, they're too busy to read and write posts to it.

[Anonymous]

Draaaamaaaa!

[Anonymous]

And now everyone outside the BASIS community can see why they shut it down.

Wack-a-doodle doo!!!

[Anonymous]

Not a BASIS parent, but I'd be pretty pissed if our school closed the listserve down.

[Anonymous]

Oh my god, SHUT UP.

I CANNOT believe that you do not SEE the DRAMA you CREATE and BRING to EVERY situation.

I have NOTIHNG to do with BASIS but I CANNOT wait for THEM to COuNSEL you OUT. You are a NIGHTMARE.

[Anonymous]

Not a BASIS parent, but I'd be pretty pissed if our school closed the listserve down

This wasn't a school listserv and the school didn't shut it down. It was run by the boosters, which is like a PTA. They decided that it wasn't worth their time to continue running it.

[Anonymous]

OP, I am sorry to say that it is evident to most BASIS parents I know that the reason they shut it down for better or worse had to do with your long repetitive and disruptive posts on the Boosters listserv. You have only yourself to blame, but the rest of us suffer the loss. Please stop posting this type of thing all the time here or anywhere-for everyone else's sake if not your kids'.

[Anonymous]

Not a BASIS parent, but the OP comes off as completely UNHINGED...just sayin'.

[Anonymous]

So, just curious. Not at Basis but enjoying the circus show here on DCUM.

Does everyone at BASIS know who the OP whack job is? Is it a man or a woman? American, or non native speaker?

What's their true beef? Are they obnoxious like this over everything, or just BASIS? (like, are they a normal-ish person you could chat with before or after school until suddenly you realize they're actually crazy and you back away?) Does every other parent there know OP by sight/name?

My kid's school has one crazy parent who occasionally would post things that were always in lower case with lots of ellipsis, and only semi-complete sentences. Tried to be somewhat mystic about it. Actually I think his kid has moved onto middle school now. But everyone kinda knew and mostly just ignored, except one or two flare ups. I think he was self aware enough to realize he wasn't everyone's cup of tea and so he restrained himself. This person at BASIS seems completely un-self-aware, and incapable of lightening up even a smidge. Since i don't have to deal with him/her, just wondering how a person gets to be this way.

[Anonymous]

In all fairness to the OP, I think it is wrong to make assumptions about who this person may or may not be even though I disagree with the OP's opinions against BASIS. Remember it could be anyone making posts on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If there were messages similar to OP's, I understand the decision. We had to deactivate our condo listserve a few years back because of two abusers. So unfair to everyone else, but it became necessary.

Oh and they said they had been thinking about it for "some time" - but they certainly had not discussed it with us commoners. I mean, no one is even taking responsibility for making the decision, and the BOOSTERS are so close to the administration the idea that they represent us is ridiculous. And they can write up everything except what happens at an open forum that was during work hours? They were there - they asked us all for money, how about a little summary for those who had to go to work instead?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Managing a listserv entails a certain amount of overhead, and the reasons cited made perfect sense. The listserv can't just be handed over to some unknown party because the current participants specifically opted in to this one and provided their personal contact information, that's not information that should be given over to some unknown party. It wouldn't be ethical or reasonable to just give someone wholesale control without violating privacy concerns. If someone wants to start a new listserv and to let people opt into that one, they are perfectly welcome to do so.

Right but couldn't you just start it with the old addresses and an introduction that says you can opt out immediately? The difference is HUGE in terms of the amount of work we are talking about, and 70% of Basis parents provided email addresses for the directory. As others have pointed out, people opt out all the time - because they are offended by political messages, or by the person who they clearly think is the one posting here (it isn't, I know her).............
So what is so wrong about having an opt out vs an opt in? The difference in terms of work is gigantic........... and most of us work

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If there were messages similar to OP's, I understand the decision. We had to deactivate our condo listserve a few years back because of two abusers. So unfair to everyone else, but it became necessary.

Sorry I am OP it was 3am and I was off the rails. But I am really, truly upset. For every ONE negative or off the wall post (and of course that is in the eye of the beholder) there were 30 that helped fellow parents - people posted articles about education, competitions, STEM conferences for girls........

I guess I can't explain it. But it is very easy to ignore posts there from people you don't like b/c you see their name. Here, not so much. But "ownership of the list serve" means nothing to me - they ought to have thought about the community building aspects that were going on, and they ought to have left us to our own devices.

In some ways it was useless - you could not mention a teacher or administrator by name and say critical things about them, and that is just plain wrong because they fire teachers at the end of every year, and classroom management is a big issue for some teachers and if someone just flagged it early on maybe they could regain control........

We are not a condo. We are a school in its 3rd year, with growing pains, and so many shifts in terms of who is running things and how they are being run it would boggle your mind. We have the potential to be great, and honestly, the list serve was a part of that. Why couldn't they just have let people who are Word Salads have their say, knowing that no one listens or cares, and let the rest of us use the list serve as a resource.

There was no notice. There was a stupid double speak explanation. And now the only way to raise a question or concern is either to go to their stupid meetings, trust them to do it for you, or go in the morning and hope the administration will answer your question and that not everyone else knows the answer - because when a simple email could have cleared it up, valuable time has been wasted.

This just feels like Orwell's 1984, throwing the baby out with the bath water. Why not just let the baby get adopted? Seriously, this was a terrible call and there is no way they are getting a cent from me.

OP, I feel so sorry for BASIS. You are one wack job!

[Anonymous]

Lady, face up to what you've done. Take all the responsibility. You alone over the past few weeks absolutely held the list serve hostage with your tirades. You had some valid points, but jeez you acted like a mad woman in making your points. I know I and a whole lot of other parents were sick of you! Now go complain on Facebook! I'm pissed that you ruined a useful resource for all! I hope you feel some since of responsibility for your actions.

[Anonymous]

The expression "This is why we can't have nice things" keeps coming to mind...