Well you, you, you. That's what really matters, right? Sounds like you want a school that doesn't comply with IDEA? |
It is always great for parents to have more options. If you want to send your kid to a different school, great. If you like BASIS--and it has a great track record--then this is awesome news. |
I'm PP to whom you responded. I think I agree with much of what what you project. One of the things I find amusing is the reflexive responses on DCUM from people who immediately question whether BASIS is appropriate for ES. They have like 40 other schools that already offer K+. |
Everyone knows BASIS operates lots of elementary schools. But this country is filled with crappy schools. Existing doesn't mean it's actually good. |
What are they going to teach the elementary kids about China? Inquiring minds want to know. |
Why do they think their application will be approved this time? |
We get it, you just want “those kids” out of the way. But having an individual kid repeat a grade isn’t going to improve that kid’s academic or life outcomes at all, and leaves the previous grade with those pesky retained kids. If your goal is to educate a kid, having them repeat a grade doesn’t do anything to accomplish that goal. |
I think it telling that you didn't address any of the substantive criticisms of your "social promotions for all" and false binary outcome positioning. You fall back on bumper sticker platitudes that "personally, I care about all the kids" and try and divert this to a smaller discussion about IDEA (the details of which I could not care less about). What's your answer to socially promoting kids to a useless HS diploma with MS educations and a work ethic informed by having never had to work or be held to account? What's your answer to how your policies hurt poor kids and kids of color who don't have options to move or pay and end up with poor school environments? How does hurting all those other kids to cater to a small number of disruptive kids years behind grade level illustrate caring about "all" the kids? When you want to have a discussion about these issues. let me know. |
JFC. You continue to fall back on a false choice. P.S. Yes, I want disruptive kids who don't care about learning the hell away from my kids and all other kids who want to learn. What's funny is you spend so much time around SJW who suffer liberal guilt that you don't quite know how to respond when people don't scurry away at being accused of "not caring" or in response to veiled accusations of racism (see, "those kids"). |
It doesn't matter if you care about IDEA. It's the law. BASIS has to care about it. I would like to know, and I hope the PCSB would also like to know, how BASIS plans to comply with IDEA. It's not a "smaller discussion", it's the law. It's not "catering", it's the law. My answer would be that keeping kids with their age cohort is developmentally appropriate, and that they should receive services and intensive remediation so that they have their special needs addressed and catch up academically to the extent possible. Unfortunately this is expensive, but I believe the city should fund it because it'll pay off in the long term. Academic retention at BASIS does not address students' special needs, and is merely a way of motivating them to leave BASIS so that BASIS can claim to be "successful" and point to its good test scores, which are really achieved through demographics and attrition rather than anything particularly great about the teaching. |
Wow your genius plan to warehouse kids with special needs is so ethical, and so very IDEA-compliant. What a nice, caring, empathetic person you must be. Did you ever think about how we're all one car accident away from having special needs? Life can change in an instant. Be careful what you wish for. |
I agree with this. The city needs more middle school seats, not elementary seats. That said, if it opens on time that’s great news for my current first grader. I’d expect the first year to be slightly easier entry and fourth would be a good year to switch from our EOTP DCPS. |
Haven't they already missed the application window for new charters this year? |
TBH... there is a real risk that BASIS goes down the tubes if it doesn't have a big population of UMC families coming in at 5th. |
They're not seeking to open until Fall 2025. So, no. |