BASIS student, have they left the school?

[Anonymous]

How did Basis get away with this? Isn't this illegal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

You only get private placement if the school cannot meet FAPE: if the child tested into 5th grade algebra then he is above grade level at least in math. Very difficult if not impossible to get private placement if the child is not below grade level.

Perhaps the family felt Basis was a bad "fit".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

You only get private placement if the school cannot meet FAPE: if the child tested into 5th grade algebra then he is above grade level at least in math. Very difficult if not impossible to get private placement if the child is not below grade level.

Perhaps the family felt Basis was a bad "fit".

That is incorrect. In some cases, it's actually easier. As in so many things, this depends upon the individual situation: the child, the needs, the school, the history, the family's lawyer, etc. DC has public schools for children who are below grade level. The families of children with special needs, who are not below grade level do not have many choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

You only get private placement if the school cannot meet FAPE: if the child tested into 5th grade algebra then he is above grade level at least in math. Very difficult if not impossible to get private placement if the child is not below grade level.

Perhaps the family felt Basis was a bad "fit".

That is incorrect. In some cases, it's actually easier. As in so many things, this depends upon the individual situation: the child, the needs, the school, the history, the family's lawyer, etc. DC has public schools for children who are below grade level. The families of children with special needs, who are not below grade level do not have many choices.

First time I've heard this:. It's EASIER to get a private placement for SN kids who are NOT below grade level vs SN kids at grade level and above. Really!?! DC has a student population where over 50% of the non SN students are below grade level in both English and Math, yet they will pay for a SN student who is at grade level to attend a private SN school. Don't think so. There was a long extensive discussion on the SN board about this recently. Private placements have gotten much tougher in the past two yrs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

You only get private placement if the school cannot meet FAPE: if the child tested into 5th grade algebra then he is above grade level at least in math. Very difficult if not impossible to get private placement if the child is not below grade level.

Perhaps the family felt Basis was a bad "fit".

That is incorrect. In some cases, it's actually easier. As in so many things, this depends upon the individual situation: the child, the needs, the school, the history, the family's lawyer, etc. DC has public schools for children who are below grade level. The families of children with special needs, who are not below grade level do not have many choices.

First time I've heard this:. It's EASIER to get a private placement for SN kids who are NOT below grade level vs SN kids Below grade level Really!?! DC has a student population where over 50% of the non SN students are below grade level in both English and Math, yet they will pay for a SN student who is at grade level to attend a private SN school. Don't think so. There was a long extensive discussion on the SN board about this recently. Private placements have gotten much tougher in the past two yrs.

[Anonymous]

The title of the thread on the SN board is "Due process in DCPS"

[Anonymous]

It's a tragedy for any family to have to make that kind of decision to pull out of a school, but there must have been some rather difficult circumstances involved. To my knowledge, there are currently several other special needs students doing fine at BASIS, including others who are accelerated.

I'm sure there's more to the story on why this particular family left, and all families deserve their privacy rather than being dragged through a message board - the bottom line is that it would be a gross misportrayal to go around suggesting they were pushed out because of special needs as posters have done here.

[Anonymous]

^ I have little doubt that it's some anti-charter activist who started this thread, sensing what they thought was blood in the water to serve their aims.

It's unbelievably cynical and heartless for anyone to use special needs students and their families and their private lives as pawns in some kind of political chess game, and as such, starting this thread was highly inappropriate.

For anyone to be so intrusive, cold and heartless by posting speculations about special needs students and to drag their personal lives through message boards is awful - and if the OP would treat students at other schools so poorly by doing so, one can only assume they treat their own students as poorly - no true advocate for special needs students would have done the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ I have little doubt that it's some anti-charter activist who started this thread, sensing what they thought was blood in the water to serve their aims.

It's unbelievably cynical and heartless for anyone to use special needs students and their families and their private lives as pawns in some kind of political chess game, and as such, starting this thread was highly inappropriate.

For anyone to be so intrusive, cold and heartless by posting speculations about special needs students and to drag their personal lives through message boards is awful - and if the OP would treat students at other schools so poorly by doing so, one can only assume they treat their own students as poorly - no true advocate for special needs students would have done the same.

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ I have little doubt that it's some anti-charter activist who started this thread, sensing what they thought was blood in the water to serve their aims.

It's unbelievably cynical and heartless for anyone to use special needs students and their families and their private lives as pawns in some kind of political chess game, and as such, starting this thread was highly inappropriate.

For anyone to be so intrusive, cold and heartless by posting speculations about special needs students and to drag their personal lives through message boards is awful - and if the OP would treat students at other schools so poorly by doing so, one can only assume they treat their own students as poorly - no true advocate for special needs students would have done the same.

The thread was not started about a special need kid. The original post only said that a child in 5th grade had come back to his/her DC's school. If the posts about the special needs kid is true, it happened before school started not when this thread was started.

My understanding of the question was more along the lines of whether kids were leaving because Basis was too much. Frankly, I find this just as bad because even if the kid is not special needs his/her and the family don't deserve to be discussed on a message board.

[Anonymous]

Unless of course there is blood in the water.

[Anonymous]

I just read this thread again. The only private info that I can see divulged here is that a student in 5th grades with "special needs" may have left the school. Seems pretty non-invasive to me.

[Anonymous]

I also get the sinking suspicion that there are only a handful of people contributing to all these basis posts... And everyone has an agenda. Site should be renamed dc tiger moms!

[Anonymous]

It was about singling out a specific case, i.e. a special needs student?

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

And what about the posts providing specific details about that student, where the student lived, and a reference to the article about a special needs BASIS student in the Washington Post?

Thankfully some of that's been deleted. Disgraceful.

[Anonymous]

It's just the usual random sniping and wild speculating...