BASIS: PCSB staff recommends conditional continuance due to SWD

[Anonymous]

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In terms of the accommodations, can I get a sense of what Basis should be providing that it isn't? And that would actually make Basis -- rather than getting a kid placed elsewhere -- a success for you kid?

She's not going to answer that. She's just going to continue insisting that BASIS is violating her child's rights without explaining exactly what accommodations her child needs that wouldn't be available at BASIS.

Obviously I’m not going to post my child’s IEP. And all you’d do anyway is make some argument that my kid doesn’t fit Basis’s “niche.” If you are genuinely interested in the menu of special needs accomodations you can do what SN parents do and checkout Wrightslaw and many other online sources. We paid $1000s to a consult as well. And of course an IEP is individual so my kid’s IEP tells you little about what other kids need. Mine doesn’t need extended time for tests or speech therapy; othet kids might.

Translation: no. I prefer to keep my demands opaque, unfouded, shrill, and broad.

ooh “shrill.” I’ll add that to my bingo card. there is nothing opaque about it - Basis has to staff up and coordinate the IEP process and provide more services. Special ed teachers in subject matter areas, EF support, social skills, behavioral plans. Your question is really coming from a place of ignorance and you should be happy about that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
In terms of the accommodations, can I get a sense of what Basis should be providing that it isn't? And that would actually make Basis -- rather than getting a kid placed elsewhere -- a success for you kid?

She's not going to answer that. She's just going to continue insisting that BASIS is violating her child's rights without explaining exactly what accommodations her child needs that wouldn't be available at BASIS.

Obviously I’m not going to post my child’s IEP. And all you’d do anyway is make some argument that my kid doesn’t fit Basis’s “niche.” If you are genuinely interested in the menu of special needs accomodations you can do what SN parents do and checkout Wrightslaw and many other online sources. We paid $1000s to a consult as well. And of course an IEP is individual so my kid’s IEP tells you little about what other kids need. Mine doesn’t need extended time for tests or speech therapy; othet kids might.

Translation: no. I prefer to keep my demands opaque, unfouded, shrill, and broad.

ooh “shrill.” I’ll add that to my bingo card. there is nothing opaque about it - Basis has to staff up and coordinate the IEP process and provide more services. Special ed teachers in subject matter areas, EF support, social skills, behavioral plans. Your question is really coming from a place of ignorance and you should be happy about that.

According to you. According to the charter board they need to increase SN enrollment through marketing and a plan for how to manage it. The end.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
In terms of the accommodations, can I get a sense of what Basis should be providing that it isn't? And that would actually make Basis -- rather than getting a kid placed elsewhere -- a success for you kid?

She's not going to answer that. She's just going to continue insisting that BASIS is violating her child's rights without explaining exactly what accommodations her child needs that wouldn't be available at BASIS.

Obviously I’m not going to post my child’s IEP. And all you’d do anyway is make some argument that my kid doesn’t fit Basis’s “niche.” If you are genuinely interested in the menu of special needs accomodations you can do what SN parents do and checkout Wrightslaw and many other online sources. We paid $1000s to a consult as well. And of course an IEP is individual so my kid’s IEP tells you little about what other kids need. Mine doesn’t need extended time for tests or speech therapy; othet kids might.

Translation: no. I prefer to keep my demands opaque, unfouded, shrill, and broad.

ooh “shrill.” I’ll add that to my bingo card. there is nothing opaque about it - Basis has to staff up and coordinate the IEP process and provide more services. Special ed teachers in subject matter areas, EF support, social skills, behavioral plans. Your question is really coming from a place of ignorance and you should be happy about that.

According to you. According to the charter board they need to increase SN enrollment through marketing and a plan for how to manage it. The end.

jfc. no, according to the charter board they also have to PROVIDE the needed services. The newly enrolled students will need services.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
In terms of the accommodations, can I get a sense of what Basis should be providing that it isn't? And that would actually make Basis -- rather than getting a kid placed elsewhere -- a success for you kid?

She's not going to answer that. She's just going to continue insisting that BASIS is violating her child's rights without explaining exactly what accommodations her child needs that wouldn't be available at BASIS.

Obviously I’m not going to post my child’s IEP. And all you’d do anyway is make some argument that my kid doesn’t fit Basis’s “niche.” If you are genuinely interested in the menu of special needs accomodations you can do what SN parents do and checkout Wrightslaw and many other online sources. We paid $1000s to a consult as well. And of course an IEP is individual so my kid’s IEP tells you little about what other kids need. Mine doesn’t need extended time for tests or speech therapy; othet kids might.

Translation: no. I prefer to keep my demands opaque, unfouded, shrill, and broad.

ooh “shrill.” I’ll add that to my bingo card. there is nothing opaque about it - Basis has to staff up and coordinate the IEP process and provide more services. Special ed teachers in subject matter areas, EF support, social skills, behavioral plans. Your question is really coming from a place of ignorance and you should be happy about that.

According to you. According to the charter board they need to increase SN enrollment through marketing and a plan for how to manage it. The end.

you know, you’re not doing Basis (a school with a LONG history of problems with disabilities rights compliance, including a federal investigation) any favors.

[Anonymous]

PP, no one wants to know the specifics of your child’s IEP. We all just want to know what SN basis is failing to accommodate that you think they ought to be able to accommodate.

I’ll grant you that basis probably can’t support kids with intellectual disability. Is your main concern that low IQ kids can’t access basis? Is your main concern that you don’t think they have adequate staffing for SN? Is it that you’ve heard they’re poor with SN, so you’re assuming they aren’t doing their duty?

I’d understand if you had a specific allegation of basis failing to provide SN support or promising support that they fail to deliver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
In terms of the accommodations, can I get a sense of what Basis should be providing that it isn't? And that would actually make Basis -- rather than getting a kid placed elsewhere -- a success for you kid?

She's not going to answer that. She's just going to continue insisting that BASIS is violating her child's rights without explaining exactly what accommodations her child needs that wouldn't be available at BASIS.

Obviously I’m not going to post my child’s IEP. And all you’d do anyway is make some argument that my kid doesn’t fit Basis’s “niche.” If you are genuinely interested in the menu of special needs accomodations you can do what SN parents do and checkout Wrightslaw and many other online sources. We paid $1000s to a consult as well. And of course an IEP is individual so my kid’s IEP tells you little about what other kids need. Mine doesn’t need extended time for tests or speech therapy; othet kids might.

Translation: no. I prefer to keep my demands opaque, unfouded, shrill, and broad.

ooh “shrill.” I’ll add that to my bingo card. there is nothing opaque about it - Basis has to staff up and coordinate the IEP process and provide more services. Special ed teachers in subject matter areas, EF support, social skills, behavioral plans. Your question is really coming from a place of ignorance and you should be happy about that.

According to you. According to the charter board they need to increase SN enrollment through marketing and a plan for how to manage it. The end.

you know, you’re not doing Basis (a school with a LONG history of problems with disabilities rights compliance, including a federal investigation) any favors.

+1 Gross

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, no one wants to know the specifics of your child’s IEP. We all just want to know what SN basis is failing to accommodate that you think they ought to be able to accommodate.

I’ll grant you that basis probably can’t support kids with intellectual disability. Is your main concern that low IQ kids can’t access basis? Is your main concern that you don’t think they have adequate staffing for SN? Is it that you’ve heard they’re poor with SN, so you’re assuming they aren’t doing their duty?

I’d understand if you had a specific allegation of basis failing to provide SN support or promising support that they fail to deliver.

I’m not sure why you’re unable to read the charter board report (has been posted repeatedly) and you can find the 2013 federal investigation report as well. What exactly do you want? To conduct a due process hearing?

[Anonymous]

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and that matters … why? it’s a legal requirement. and the fact that you think some complete non sequitur anecdote is relevant just cements the fact that you have no clue what you’re talking about. luckily my child’s right to access the school is based on the law, not on whether some ignorant dude finds me “dogmatic” on the internet. lol.

DP. If you SN child is bright, motivated, and would thrive in an academically rigorous environment, then nothing is impeding your child's access to the school. If your child isn't the above, then why are you fighting tooth and nail to ensure that every single school is a perfect fit for your child? My child has ADHD with significant issues with auditory processing. BASIS is a great fit for her. Immersion schools would be a terrible fit, since she lacks the auditory processing to parse a spoken foreign language very well. I'm not out there stomping my feet and complaining that all of the immersion programs are denying my child's right to access them, nor am I lobbying to shut down the programs. Instead, I recognize that immersion programs are a wonderful opportunity for many kids, even if they're a poor fit for my child.

you have a very limited understanding of accomodations, as well as Basis’s financial obligation here.

And this is what this poster wants -- to get a seat at Basis, and have Basis fund a private placement because she will keep trying to argue that Basis can't meet her kid's needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
In terms of the accommodations, can I get a sense of what Basis should be providing that it isn't? And that would actually make Basis -- rather than getting a kid placed elsewhere -- a success for you kid?

She's not going to answer that. She's just going to continue insisting that BASIS is violating her child's rights without explaining exactly what accommodations her child needs that wouldn't be available at BASIS.

Obviously I’m not going to post my child’s IEP. And all you’d do anyway is make some argument that my kid doesn’t fit Basis’s “niche.” If you are genuinely interested in the menu of special needs accomodations you can do what SN parents do and checkout Wrightslaw and many other online sources. We paid $1000s to a consult as well. And of course an IEP is individual so my kid’s IEP tells you little about what other kids need. Mine doesn’t need extended time for tests or speech therapy; othet kids might.

Translation: no. I prefer to keep my demands opaque, unfouded, shrill, and broad.

ooh “shrill.” I’ll add that to my bingo card. there is nothing opaque about it - Basis has to staff up and coordinate the IEP process and provide more services. Special ed teachers in subject matter areas, EF support, social skills, behavioral plans. Your question is really coming from a place of ignorance and you should be happy about that.

I’m the poster who asked the question and have not posted since. I completely agree I’m asking out of ignorance, I am genuinely understand what you’re looking for/alleging that BASIS doesn’t provide that would allow your kid to succeed. I don’t know you or anything about you, so even if you posted your kid’s IEP, it’s not like I can or would identify you. You just keep saying they need to staff up (are they not providing the amount of service they’re required to?) or coordinate better (what’s not coordinated properly?), but you’re not really explaining what they need to provide that they don’t. Despite you hostility, I’m actually asking as the parent of a very smart ESer with an IEP who sees BASIS as by far the best option out their to fit her kid’s needs. I’m trying to understand why/if I might be misguided. (My kid’s IEP is not related to neuropsych stuff at all, so maybe that makes it different?

[Anonymous]

Sorry for the talk to text errors above!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
and that matters … why? it’s a legal requirement. and the fact that you think some complete non sequitur anecdote is relevant just cements the fact that you have no clue what you’re talking about. luckily my child’s right to access the school is based on the law, not on whether some ignorant dude finds me “dogmatic” on the internet. lol.

DP. If you SN child is bright, motivated, and would thrive in an academically rigorous environment, then nothing is impeding your child's access to the school. If your child isn't the above, then why are you fighting tooth and nail to ensure that every single school is a perfect fit for your child? My child has ADHD with significant issues with auditory processing. BASIS is a great fit for her. Immersion schools would be a terrible fit, since she lacks the auditory processing to parse a spoken foreign language very well. I'm not out there stomping my feet and complaining that all of the immersion programs are denying my child's right to access them, nor am I lobbying to shut down the programs. Instead, I recognize that immersion programs are a wonderful opportunity for many kids, even if they're a poor fit for my child.

you have a very limited understanding of accomodations, as well as Basis’s financial obligation here.

And this is what this poster wants -- to get a seat at Basis, and have Basis fund a private placement because she will keep trying to argue that Basis can't meet her kid's needs.

that’s not true in the slightest. my kid will be mainstreamed and there is no private SN school that would suit him. But go on with your invective against kids with disabilities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
In terms of the accommodations, can I get a sense of what Basis should be providing that it isn't? And that would actually make Basis -- rather than getting a kid placed elsewhere -- a success for you kid?

She's not going to answer that. She's just going to continue insisting that BASIS is violating her child's rights without explaining exactly what accommodations her child needs that wouldn't be available at BASIS.

Obviously I’m not going to post my child’s IEP. And all you’d do anyway is make some argument that my kid doesn’t fit Basis’s “niche.” If you are genuinely interested in the menu of special needs accomodations you can do what SN parents do and checkout Wrightslaw and many other online sources. We paid $1000s to a consult as well. And of course an IEP is individual so my kid’s IEP tells you little about what other kids need. Mine doesn’t need extended time for tests or speech therapy; othet kids might.

Translation: no. I prefer to keep my demands opaque, unfouded, shrill, and broad.

ooh “shrill.” I’ll add that to my bingo card. there is nothing opaque about it - Basis has to staff up and coordinate the IEP process and provide more services. Special ed teachers in subject matter areas, EF support, social skills, behavioral plans. Your question is really coming from a place of ignorance and you should be happy about that.

I’m the poster who asked the question and have not posted since. I completely agree I’m asking out of ignorance, I am genuinely understand what you’re looking for/alleging that BASIS doesn’t provide that would allow your kid to succeed. I don’t know you or anything about you, so even if you posted your kid’s IEP, it’s not like I can or would identify you. You just keep saying they need to staff up (are they not providing the amount of service they’re required to?) or coordinate better (what’s not coordinated properly?), but you’re not really explaining what they need to provide that they don’t. Despite you hostility, I’m actually asking as the parent of a very smart ESer with an IEP who sees BASIS as by far the best option out their to fit her kid’s needs. I’m trying to understand why/if I might be misguided. (My kid’s IEP is not related to neuropsych stuff at all, so maybe that makes it different?

Sorry - post on the SN board for better input. Middle school is often discussed there.

[Anonymous]

^^PP, if you have a very smart kid with an IEP who you think would do well at BASIS then don’t be scared off by the angry comments in this thread, especially if your child seems academically motivated. Please keep in mind that accusations come from non-BASIS parents.

- Signed current BASIS mom of a smart kid with HFA who’s doing well at BASIS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^PP, if you have a very smart kid with an IEP who you think would do well at BASIS then don’t be scared off by the angry comments in this thread, especially if your child seems academically motivated. Please keep in mind that accusations come from non-BASIS parents.

- Signed current BASIS mom of a smart kid with HFA who’s doing well at BASIS

This is what is so frustrating about the SN parent poster on here -- they don't even have a kid at Basis but are sure they are an expert in what Basis is and isnt' doing. The fact that they won't give specifics is likely do to the fact that they don't actually know what Basis is or isn't doing well in the SN arena. Go tour and speak to the HOS as well as the director of support services, PPP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^PP, if you have a very smart kid with an IEP who you think would do well at BASIS then don’t be scared off by the angry comments in this thread, especially if your child seems academically motivated. Please keep in mind that accusations come from non-BASIS parents.

- Signed current BASIS mom of a smart kid with HFA who’s doing well at BASIS

This is what is so frustrating about the SN parent poster on here -- they don't even have a kid at Basis but are sure they are an expert in what Basis is and isnt' doing. The fact that they won't give specifics is likely do to the fact that they don't actually know what Basis is or isn't doing well in the SN arena. Go tour and speak to the HOS as well as the director of support services, PPP.

Give it a freakin' rest. Basis's record speaks for itself: the charter board action; the federal investigation; and the terrible reputation it has with the SN community in DC. Yes, there are some SN kids who are doing fine; that's clear. But to claim that "Oh, we don't know what Basis is doing, maybe it's ok!" is just a lie.