Why don’t more parents send their kids to Basis McLean?

[Anonymous]

How is the answer to this not obvious after 13 pages worth of responses?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is the answer to this not obvious after 13 pages worth of responses?

BIM management keeps adding new reasons to keep track of.

[Anonymous]

And that’s why admin,staff, faculty, student turnover is off the charts. Curious as to the spin BIM will place on this fall’s exodus. Waiting with my popcorn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And that’s why admin,staff, faculty, student turnover is off the charts. Curious as to the spin BIM will place on this fall’s exodus. Waiting with my popcorn.

They'll just keep up the PR barrage like this tweet. What they don't note is that compared to two years ago, there are many, many new faces, many missing faces, and lots of empty chairs.

Rah rah rah.

https://twitter.com/BASISIndMcLean/status/1560813863192469504?s=20&t=do-WqRLbool7vvbCU_wA9g

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And that’s why admin,staff, faculty, student turnover is off the charts. Curious as to the spin BIM will place on this fall’s exodus. Waiting with my popcorn.

They'll just keep up the PR barrage like this tweet. What they don't note is that compared to two years ago, there are many, many new faces, many missing faces, and lots of empty chairs.

Rah rah rah.

https://twitter.com/BASISIndMcLean/status/1560813863192469504?s=20&t=do-WqRLbool7vvbCU_wA9g

And the website still shows the two directors, MS and US, who are no longer there, plus teachers who are teaching at other schools now.

[Anonymous]

I’m also from nyc and disagree that basis is well regarded here. Just seems like a no frills Crammer you’d only send kid to bc it’s cheaper than the other privates

[Anonymous]

There have been MANY separate threads here about BIM over the past several years. The postings are pretty consistent across all of those threads.

There is no chance I would permit my DC to attend BIM; even FCPS/LCPS/APS/ACPS would be better options for my DC.

[Anonymous]

Seems like the website is still not updated with the teachers and directors that left

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like the website is still not updated with the teachers and directors that left

In the midst of a crisis, you can either tackle it head on in your PR or duck and cover until you have some kind of positive message to put out instead.

BIM has chosen door #2. If the parents don't kick up too much fuss, they will just sweep it under the rug and try to move on.

It's what they always do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like the website is still not updated with the teachers and directors that left

In the midst of a crisis, you can either tackle it head on in your PR or duck and cover until you have some kind of positive message to put out instead.

BIM has chosen door #2. If the parents don't kick up too much fuss, they will just sweep it under the rug and try to move on.

It's what they always do.

They must have addressed the departures in some way? What did they communicate about it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like the website is still not updated with the teachers and directors that left

In the midst of a crisis, you can either tackle it head on in your PR or duck and cover until you have some kind of positive message to put out instead.

BIM has chosen door #2. If the parents don't kick up too much fuss, they will just sweep it under the rug and try to move on.

It's what they always do.

They must have addressed the departures in some way? What did they communicate about it?

Glossy pics on their Twitter feed from the first day of school. Nothing to see here folks, just move along.

The organizational culture there has always been to deny and avoid responsibility for past events, even if they happened yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like the website is still not updated with the teachers and directors that left

In the midst of a crisis, you can either tackle it head on in your PR or duck and cover until you have some kind of positive message to put out instead.

BIM has chosen door #2. If the parents don't kick up too much fuss, they will just sweep it under the rug and try to move on.

It's what they always do.

They must have addressed the departures in some way? What did they communicate about it?

I don't think most BIM parents care about departures and turnover. It's hard to know what really drives people to send their kids to this school. Even when one teacher accused the entire class of plagiarizing (they didn't) years ago, nobody really cared. And nobody cared when people found out that that same teacher who had accused them all of cheating didn't actually have a doctorate even though he claimed he had two (which shows you, btw, how seriously BIM takes its hiring). That teacher left for another school, but the problems that put him there are still systematic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like the website is still not updated with the teachers and directors that left

In the midst of a crisis, you can either tackle it head on in your PR or duck and cover until you have some kind of positive message to put out instead.

BIM has chosen door #2. If the parents don't kick up too much fuss, they will just sweep it under the rug and try to move on.

It's what they always do.

They must have addressed the departures in some way? What did they communicate about it?

I don't think most BIM parents care about departures and turnover. It's hard to know what really drives people to send their kids to this school. Even when one teacher accused the entire class of plagiarizing (they didn't) years ago, nobody really cared. And nobody cared when people found out that that same teacher who had accused them all of cheating didn't actually have a doctorate even though he claimed he had two (which shows you, btw, how seriously BIM takes its hiring). That teacher left for another school, but the problems that put him there are still systematic.

Some parents like the test-drone curriculum emphasis because they want to toughen their kids up for college. Forget about the emotional toll that takes on many teens.

And some students like it there anyway. The management chaos and faculty turnover don't usually have a direct impact on what preteens are up to (and the teens are all grinding away for their tests) so when parents see their kids happy, they keep them there.

I know one 8th grader who will go to high school elsewhere because her parents are tired of the chaos, and the student would not do well in the AP gauntlet system. I was glad to hear she will land somewhere else.

BIM is a one-trick pony with few other facilities or options, and a lengthy record of management incoherence. People can pay for that if they like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like the website is still not updated with the teachers and directors that left

This is the second week and the bios and photos of the same directors of the MS and HS are on the website. Same two deans are there too. No changes to the MS and HS faculty bios. So, is this information on resignations a fake news? Previously, the website was promptly updated. As an example, the faculty page was updated within hours after resignation of one of the teachers last October.

[Anonymous]

I just looked and personally know someone who left in July who is still on the website, so sounds like maybe their web person quit too! haha