BASIS DC shut down/abolished the school list serve

[Anonymous]

my child took precalculus in one year
guess he missed out

anyone for the umpteenth time care to share what happened at the meeting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my child took precalculus in one year
guess he missed out

anyone for the umpteenth time care to share what happened at the meeting?

"Missed out" on what? Taking pre-calc in 2 years? If you want early graduation then evidently you do want that kind of compressed and accelerated math. Yet above, there was also complaining about not being able to graduate early if you don't accelerate on math. So make up your mind. And meanwhile, either is an option. Not to mention the fact that your other choices were to not even have pre-calc at the grade level that BASIS offers it, and having far fewer math options available to you if you were at any other charter or DCPS school.

As for filling you in on what happened, at this point I it's pretty evident that of the few BASIS parents who visit DCUM, most aren't all that interested in talking about details like meetings with admin since it seems you'll only go back to questioning and disputing what they say and giving them a hard time. You keep making it clear you don't want to actually listen to what other parents say - so why should anyone bother. I suggest you actually talk to the school instead of constantly asking questions that you then reject the answers to.

For the umpteenth time, it should be clear at this point that you aren't going to get whatever it is that you want here on DCUM (unless what you want is to rant at random strangers on DCUM).

For the umpteenth time, if you want to not be so far out of the loop, yet couldn't go to the morning coffee hour, you still have the option of evening booster meetings (where there are school admins present for Q&A time) or the saturday coffee hour coming up or emailing school admins or making an appointment and meeting with them one on one, there are several options. For the amount of time and energy you've already spent on these DCUM posts over the last month plus you could have easily have done any of those and had your questions and concerns addressed by the school admins ten times over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my child took precalculus in one year
guess he missed out

anyone for the umpteenth time care to share what happened at the meeting?

"Missed out" on what? Taking pre-calc in 2 years? If you want early graduation then evidently you do want that kind of compressed and accelerated math. Yet above, there was also complaining about not being able to graduate early if you don't accelerate on math. So make up your mind. And meanwhile, either is an option. Not to mention the fact that your other choices were to not even have pre-calc at the grade level that BASIS offers it, and having far fewer math options available to you if you were at any other charter or DCPS school.

As for filling you in on what happened, at this point I it's pretty evident that of the few BASIS parents who visit DCUM, most aren't all that interested in talking about details like meetings with admin since it seems you'll only go back to questioning and disputing what they say and giving them a hard time. You keep making it clear you don't want to actually listen to what other parents say - so why should anyone bother. I suggest you actually talk to the school instead of constantly asking questions that you then reject the answers to.

For the umpteenth time, it should be clear at this point that you aren't going to get whatever it is that you want here on DCUM (unless what you want is to rant at random strangers on DCUM).

For the umpteenth time, if you want to not be so far out of the loop, yet couldn't go to the morning coffee hour, you still have the option of evening booster meetings (where there are school admins present for Q&A time) or the saturday coffee hour coming up or emailing school admins or making an appointment and meeting with them one on one, there are several options. For the amount of time and energy you've already spent on these DCUM posts over the last month plus you could have easily have done any of those and had your questions and concerns addressed by the school admins ten times over.

ok guys, again, you have no idea how many people are asking about the meeting

as for the ranting lady, you will be happy to know that her daughter has been confronted by almost ten girls in her grade saying "my mom hates your mom" without any explanation. Class act, parents. She has been reassured by the moderator that she did NOT shut down the list serve and I have told her to stay far away from here and I think she has. But her daughter is clearly bearing the brunt not only of the coffee questions and the FB emails but the fact that you erroneously think she is on DCUM.

Non Basis parents, I have to agree given the past few awful threads that you dodged a bullet
But your children would have gotten a good education

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my child took precalculus in one year
guess he missed out

anyone for the umpteenth time care to share what happened at the meeting?

"Missed out" on what? Taking pre-calc in 2 years? If you want early graduation then evidently you do want that kind of compressed and accelerated math. Yet above, there was also complaining about not being able to graduate early if you don't accelerate on math. So make up your mind. And meanwhile, either is an option. Not to mention the fact that your other choices were to not even have pre-calc at the grade level that BASIS offers it, and having far fewer math options available to you if you were at any other charter or DCPS school.

As for filling you in on what happened, at this point I it's pretty evident that of the few BASIS parents who visit DCUM, most aren't all that interested in talking about details like meetings with admin since it seems you'll only go back to questioning and disputing what they say and giving them a hard time. You keep making it clear you don't want to actually listen to what other parents say - so why should anyone bother. I suggest you actually talk to the school instead of constantly asking questions that you then reject the answers to.

For the umpteenth time, it should be clear at this point that you aren't going to get whatever it is that you want here on DCUM (unless what you want is to rant at random strangers on DCUM).

For the umpteenth time, if you want to not be so far out of the loop, yet couldn't go to the morning coffee hour, you still have the option of evening booster meetings (where there are school admins present for Q&A time) or the saturday coffee hour coming up or emailing school admins or making an appointment and meeting with them one on one, there are several options. For the amount of time and energy you've already spent on these DCUM posts over the last month plus you could have easily have done any of those and had your questions and concerns addressed by the school admins ten times over.

ok guys, again, you have no idea how many people are asking about the meeting

as for the ranting lady, you will be happy to know that her daughter has been confronted by almost ten girls in her grade saying "my mom hates your mom" without any explanation. Class act, parents. She has been reassured by the moderator that she did NOT shut down the list serve and I have told her to stay far away from here and I think she has. But her daughter is clearly bearing the brunt not only of the coffee questions and the FB emails but the fact that you erroneously think she is on DCUM.

Non Basis parents, I have to agree given the past few awful threads that you dodged a bullet
But your children would have gotten a good education

Boooooooooriiiiing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my child took precalculus in one year
guess he missed out

anyone for the umpteenth time care to share what happened at the meeting?

"Missed out" on what? Taking pre-calc in 2 years? If you want early graduation then evidently you do want that kind of compressed and accelerated math. Yet above, there was also complaining about not being able to graduate early if you don't accelerate on math. So make up your mind. And meanwhile, either is an option. Not to mention the fact that your other choices were to not even have pre-calc at the grade level that BASIS offers it, and having far fewer math options available to you if you were at any other charter or DCPS school.

As for filling you in on what happened, at this point I it's pretty evident that of the few BASIS parents who visit DCUM, most aren't all that interested in talking about details like meetings with admin since it seems you'll only go back to questioning and disputing what they say and giving them a hard time. You keep making it clear you don't want to actually listen to what other parents say - so why should anyone bother. I suggest you actually talk to the school instead of constantly asking questions that you then reject the answers to.

For the umpteenth time, it should be clear at this point that you aren't going to get whatever it is that you want here on DCUM (unless what you want is to rant at random strangers on DCUM).

For the umpteenth time, if you want to not be so far out of the loop, yet couldn't go to the morning coffee hour, you still have the option of evening booster meetings (where there are school admins present for Q&A time) or the saturday coffee hour coming up or emailing school admins or making an appointment and meeting with them one on one, there are several options. For the amount of time and energy you've already spent on these DCUM posts over the last month plus you could have easily have done any of those and had your questions and concerns addressed by the school admins ten times over.

ok guys, again, you have no idea how many people are asking about the meeting

as for the ranting lady, you will be happy to know that her daughter has been confronted by almost ten girls in her grade saying "my mom hates your mom" without any explanation. Class act, parents. She has been reassured by the moderator that she did NOT shut down the list serve and I have told her to stay far away from here and I think she has. But her daughter is clearly bearing the brunt not only of the coffee questions and the FB emails but the fact that you erroneously think she is on DCUM.

Non Basis parents, I have to agree given the past few awful threads that you dodged a bullet
But your children would have gotten a good education

Yes, an excellent STEM education. But the only real bullet to dodge is getting entangled with this barrage of online nonsense.

I think parents are right to be annoyed with what's been a steady stream of troublemaking through uninformed assumptions, ranting and accusations. No "class act" at all demonstrated by them. And I'd say it's ultimately only been the same tiny handful of posters making all this trouble, based on their writing style. This has been going on for far too long. If you have questions or concerns, talk to the school already. The post above mentions there are opportunities on Saturday, evenings, or you could just email or call and make an appointment whenever you like. Lots of options for getting answers, which are far better than barking into the wind on DCUM. And if you truly want to help, then start working WITH people instead of against them (and that means not going off to form your own private group to bitch and stew in your own echo chamber behind everyone else's back).

What have the rants and accusations gotten anyone? Nothing, other than getting a lot of other parents (and their kids) annoyed with those associated with all of this. People are starting to wonder if these posters are deliberately trying to sabotage the school by constantly sowing a whole lot of misplaced/misinformed doubt in the minds of prospective parents to chase them away, not to mention a lovely portrayal of the parents all being a bunch of angry crackpots and lunatics. If that's been your intent, then you've won. Great going. Thanks a hell of a lot. But if that wasn't your intent, then stop already. Make your last post truly be your last post on the subject.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:my child took precalculus in one year
guess he missed out

anyone for the umpteenth time care to share what happened at the meeting?

"Missed out" on what? Taking pre-calc in 2 years? If you want early graduation then evidently you do want that kind of compressed and accelerated math. Yet above, there was also complaining about not being able to graduate early if you don't accelerate on math. So make up your mind. And meanwhile, either is an option. Not to mention the fact that your other choices were to not even have pre-calc at the grade level that BASIS offers it, and having far fewer math options available to you if you were at any other charter or DCPS school.

As for filling you in on what happened, at this point I it's pretty evident that of the few BASIS parents who visit DCUM, most aren't all that interested in talking about details like meetings with admin since it seems you'll only go back to questioning and disputing what they say and giving them a hard time. You keep making it clear you don't want to actually listen to what other parents say - so why should anyone bother. I suggest you actually talk to the school instead of constantly asking questions that you then reject the answers to.

For the umpteenth time, it should be clear at this point that you aren't going to get whatever it is that you want here on DCUM (unless what you want is to rant at random strangers on DCUM).

For the umpteenth time, if you want to not be so far out of the loop, yet couldn't go to the morning coffee hour, you still have the option of evening booster meetings (where there are school admins present for Q&A time) or the saturday coffee hour coming up or emailing school admins or making an appointment and meeting with them one on one, there are several options. For the amount of time and energy you've already spent on these DCUM posts over the last month plus you could have easily have done any of those and had your questions and concerns addressed by the school admins ten times over.

ok guys, again, you have no idea how many people are asking about the meeting

as for the ranting lady, you will be happy to know that her daughter has been confronted by almost ten girls in her grade saying "my mom hates your mom" without any explanation. Class act, parents. She has been reassured by the moderator that she did NOT shut down the list serve and I have told her to stay far away from here and I think she has. But her daughter is clearly bearing the brunt not only of the coffee questions and the FB emails but the fact that you erroneously think she is on DCUM.

Non Basis parents, I have to agree given the past few awful threads that you dodged a bullet
But your children would have gotten a good education

Not to burst your bubble, but we all know it's you-no one goes on DCUM and tells them about what someone else's kids are saying about another person etc etc.. Better to take your own advice and stay off DCUM, for the school's students' parents' as well as your own sake, and if it is true about what these awful girls are saying, your daughter's sake also. It will make you so much happier!

[Anonymous]

Non Basis parents, I have to agree given the past few awful threads that you dodged a bullet
But your children would have gotten a good education

Not to burst your bubble, but we all know it's you-no one goes on DCUM and tells them about what someone else's kids are saying about another person etc etc.. Better to take your own advice and stay off DCUM, for the school's students' parents' as well as your own sake, and if it is true about what these awful girls are saying, your daughter's sake also. It will make you so much happier!

actually this was intended as a shout out to the mums: please don't tell your girls you hate my friend, so that they will not go into school saying this to her daughter. It upsets both of them, and there is never any reason offered. FYI she did not shut down the list serve, according to the moderator, so for that you have to go hate on someone else, and I am not her, and neither is my friend.

SHE is not on here too busy meeting with administrators, but individually, not at coffee hours

[Anonymous]

are we ever going to find out what happened? Or were you all sworn to an oath of silence?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Non Basis parents, I have to agree given the past few awful threads that you dodged a bullet
But your children would have gotten a good education

Not to burst your bubble, but we all know it's you-no one goes on DCUM and tells them about what someone else's kids are saying about another person etc etc.. Better to take your own advice and stay off DCUM, for the school's students' parents' as well as your own sake, and if it is true about what these awful girls are saying, your daughter's sake also. It will make you so much happier!

actually this was intended as a shout out to the mums: please don't tell your girls you hate my friend, so that they will not go into school saying this to her daughter. It upsets both of them, and there is never any reason offered. FYI she did not shut down the list serve, according to the moderator, so for that you have to go hate on someone else, and I am not her, and neither is my friend.

SHE is not on here too busy meeting with administrators, but individually, not at coffee hours


At this point it'd be pretty damn hard for any casual observer to believe the listserve wasn't shut down because of a handful of toxic posters.

And meanwhile, if the lady that started all of this has been meeting with administrators then surely there's no need to be posting all the incorrect information and assumptions here, nor to be posting all the questions which should be asked the school staff rather than taking it up with random strangers on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

There's been no need for any of this. All anyone ever had to do is talk to the school admins, and ask your questions there.

But instead, despite being given that suggestion several times, despite people offering corrections to the mistaken info, we've only continued to get one uninformed blowup after another, one wrong assumption after another, one massive exaggeration after another, one misinformed accusation after another. No reason for parents to be upset with the OP and others? I disagree. There's plenty of reason why parents are upset and annoyed with her and those who joined in, all of this has only led to one parent after another getting deeply annoyed and frustrated with the OP and those who tagged along with her on this voyage to nowhere. The rest of us didn't start this.

I think the person who started this thread and the one or two who evidently thought it was a good idea to keep adding more and more fuel to the fire should just stop. Walk away from this thread. Take whatever issues you have up with the school. Again, email them, set up an appointment for a one-on-one, go to Saturday coffee hour, or evening Booster meetings. Sounds like maybe the one has finally seen the light and started doing that. The person still carrying on about coffee hours and precalc ought to think about doing the same.

[Anonymous]

Is it just me? I got an email from the school about the boosters meeting, which I attended, minutes attached .... with no attachment

If nothing horrible happened at the coffee, as the pp recognized, there is more than one person asking this question. I was at the boosters meeting, but would love to see what questions were asked at the coffee hour, what issues were resolved, so since we no longer have a list serve, could you do us the courtesy of answering? Or should I start another thread where you all start piling on to this medusa like mama? Who might as well at this point be credited with creating all the sinners in the universe? We are more rational than that, and more helpful than that, I like to think. You seem to have found your scapegoat.

Now could someone give the rest of us a brief summary of what happened at the coffee hour?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me? BLAH BLAH BLAH

It's not an attachment it's a hyperlink just click on it.....(unbelievable!!). I'm sure it will soon be interpreted as a clear indication that the BOOSTER parents are up to something really really bad.

[Anonymous]

Nothing "horrible" happened at the coffee hour, it was cordial, friendly, professional and productive. None of the stuff that keeps coming up here was brought up in the coffee hour. No idea why you would think there would have been anything "horrible" about it.

And again for the umpteenth time, you have many different ways to get your own questions and concerns raised and addressed - go to a coffee hour (and there are Sunday coffee hours coming up) or go to a Boosters meeting after hours (where they usually have school admins present for q&a), or email the school admins or schedule a meeting for a one on one.

The link for the booster meeting minutes works just fine. I just tried it. Booster parents "up to something really bad?" Come on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing "horrible" happened at the coffee hour, it was cordial, friendly, professional and productive. None of the stuff that keeps coming up here was brought up in the coffee hour. No idea why you would think there would have been anything "horrible" about it.

And again for the umpteenth time, you have many different ways to get your own questions and concerns raised and addressed - go to a coffee hour (and there are Sunday coffee hours coming up) or go to a Boosters meeting after hours (where they usually have school admins present for q&a), or email the school admins or schedule a meeting for a one on one.

The link for the booster meeting minutes works just fine. I just tried it. Booster parents "up to something really bad?" Come on.

I'm pretty sure that the "up to something bad" bit was meant ironically

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Non Basis parents, I have to agree given the past few awful threads that you dodged a bullet
But your children would have gotten a good education

Not to burst your bubble, but we all know it's you-no one goes on DCUM and tells them about what someone else's kids are saying about another person etc etc.. Better to take your own advice and stay off DCUM, for the school's students' parents' as well as your own sake, and if it is true about what these awful girls are saying, your daughter's sake also. It will make you so much happier!

actually this was intended as a shout out to the mums: please don't tell your girls you hate my friend, so that they will not go into school saying this to her daughter. It upsets both of them, and there is never any reason offered. FYI she did not shut down the list serve, according to the moderator, so for that you have to go hate on someone else, and I am not her, and neither is my friend.

SHE is not on here too busy meeting with administrators, but individually, not at coffee hours

At this point it'd be pretty damn hard for any casual observer to believe the listserve wasn't shut down because of a handful of toxic posters.

And meanwhile, if the lady that started all of this has been meeting with administrators then surely there's no need to be posting all the incorrect information and assumptions here, nor to be posting all the questions which should be asked the school staff rather than taking it up with random strangers on DCUM.


"the lady that started all of this" has been meeting with multiple administrators. (Depending on what "all of this is," of course, which remains entirely unclear.) She does not post on DCUM. She did post about her facebook page with titles that made it easy for all of you not to open. She has been informed by the moderator of the list serve that she was not responsible for its shut down (that it had been considered since last summer, and the moderator was given all of ten minutes notice).

All of this notwithstanding, her daughter and now her son have been told by friends "my mom hates your mom." That is why people do not go to private school. All of you mums should be above that. Shame on you, and more shame on you that you have children who are the same vulnerable age heaping this upon their children and their mum, who had nothing to do with shutting down the list serve, and does not post here.

If she read this, she would be devastated. For all I know she has, and that is why she has stopped communicating with me. Thank you all for identifying one woman as the cause of all your ills, and then vilifying her to your children. We might as well be in private school.

You are all cowards. You have her email address. If you have an issue with her, take it up with [/b]her[b] not by sending messages through your children to her children. Not to mention that the messages are incomprehensible but extremely damaging for a 13 year old girl: "my mom hates your mom." Are you all ever going to rise above this, or is your intent, based upon an attempt to start a facebook page by the mother, to run the children out of the school. Seriously?

If you go to church on Sunday, you owe your God and this woman a serious apology. Start through your children: My mum no longer hates your mum. That might go a bit of a way to undoing the damage you have inflicted based either on the posts to which she signed her name (which I cannot alone credit), or your false assumptions about who she is on DCUM. She does not post here. She says it is "too much drama" and I believe her. I think you all should go back to Salem or reconsider your positions, and have your children apologise to hers. This is really too much for them to bear over relatively innocuous posts on a list serve to which she signed her name.

If it is really your desire to see her depart from the BASIS community, then by all means keep on with it. Just realise exactly what you are doing - making her children, and thus by extension their mother, absolutely miserable for an effort that was begun in good faith and has done nothing since then to depart from that - this mum, whom you all want to crucify, put her oldest child in BASIS DC the day it opened. I ask you to look into your hearts and figure out what the hell you all think you are doing.

The list serve has been closed down for a long time, she was worried that she played a role in it, has been reassured that she is not that important, and so what are you mums in such a frenzy about? That you think she has been posting here?

She would NEVER do anything to give BASIS DC bad publicity, except to work from the inside, which she has been doing, via emails, meetings, and constant conversations with administrators as well as parents.

So you all can turn over a new leaf, or bloody go to hell, but your speculations about whether she is here can be answered by me: no.

Now get on with it, whatever you think you all are doing in the first frigging place, attacking a straw woman, be done with it.

And if you are raising your children with Christian values or with any values for that matter, stop having conversations that provoke them unsolicited to approach vulnerable children with the statement "my mom hates your mom." If you all have deliberately provoked this than you have gotten the response: silence.

As it should be. What else could any child possibly say? I don't think they want to attempt to refute the specious reasons behind the hatred, which appear to have far more to do with posts here than anywhere else. And that alone should tell you that you are wrong. If your hatred has to do with posts here, she does not post here.

Be done with this, or damn you all to hell... Act like adults for a change, could you?
So that her children, and your children, can act like children.
If you want to have at my friend, you have her email address.
Any other approach is dirty, underhanded, and in my opinion, beyond the pale.