How to help child succeed at BASIS

[Anonymous]

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+1. Do it now. It will be better than having to do it in the middle of the year.

You're really selling the school with that attitude.

[Anonymous]

BASIS needs no selling because the parents of hundreds of Ward 5 and 6 public school 4th graders are desperate for a public MS offering good discipline and academic rigor. They're happy to put up with the bad building, weak electives, and a slew of green admins and teachers.

[Anonymous]

Seriously, a lot of these like the above are just troll posts.

Don’t feed the trolls.

[Anonymous]

Any post presenting a non booster’s view about what kind of prep a kid needs to succeed at BASIS is a troll post, got it. This old BASIS hand/troll can tell you that the price of success is to put up with a dreary school run by inexperienced admins with some good teachers.

[Anonymous]

The disgruntled teacher with an axe to grind posts again.

Are you unemployed? You spend a lot of time on this forum rehashing your old grievances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The disgruntled teacher with an axe to grind posts again.

Are you unemployed? You spend a lot of time on this forum rehashing your old grievances.

Why is that every charter here has a disgruntled person with an axe to grind? It is so obvious that DCUM is anti charter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any post presenting a non booster’s view about what kind of prep a kid needs to succeed at BASIS is a troll post, got it. This old BASIS hand/troll can tell you that the price of success is to put up with a dreary school run by inexperienced admins with some good teachers.

My 7th grader just told me she is sad the school year is (just about) over because she has had such a great year at BASIS! (For real! And very pleasing for this parent to hear). She can't tell me her favorite teacher because she liked them all this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BASIS needs no selling because the parents of hundreds of Ward 5 and 6 public school 4th graders are desperate for a public MS offering good discipline and academic rigor. They're happy to put up with the bad building, weak electives, and a slew of green admins and teachers.

I'm happy with it. My kid is coming from an elementary with a beautiful building, but couldn't enjoy it because kids would throw the beautiful chairs in the classroom at each other. My kid already has outside extracurriculars, so the extra curriculars aren't really an issue, and he's already had the experience of great teachers and not-so-great teachers. Most parents do years of research before lotterying into Basis, so none of this is a surprise and they already know if the school will be a good fit. It sounds like the trolls in this thread were lazy and didn't do any research at all, or joined in the years the school just started and had no idea what to expect. I suspect the former, tbh. I also bet they don't know their kid either, so of course their experience would be a disaster.

[Anonymous]

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+1. Do it now. It will be better than having to do it in the middle of the year.

You're really selling the school with that attitude.

The school doesn't have to be sold. It has a huge waitlist, and even if they go deep into it, there are still people waiting to get in.

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Anonymous wrote:Do all 5th grade sections have the same teachers, just at different times? Are 5th graders randomly assigned a section or does the test the school is going to administer on June 27th (as part of the planned ice cream social) play a role in deciding which students are in which section? Do the students need to do anything to prepare for the June 27th test?

LOL wut?

Why do people post crap like this when they have no idea about anything. Yes, the test on June 27th. I assume this means your kid isn’t going to BASIS and you haven’t done any actual research about it… you’re just all teen test speak on this thread for funsies?

Actually my kid is going there, this is the first I’ve heard of them giving a test at an ice cream social, and the whole thing sounds weird as hell.

Do you have a spouse that handles caring about your kid's education? Because if your kid is going there, you have paid ZERO attention to all of the emails you've received and didn't attend the in-person orientation. This has been mentioned repeatedly.

We got off the waitlist just a few weeks ago, did not have the opportunity to go to the orientation because of that, and have not received any emails that reference the test.

Good to know the incoming parents are a**holes, though.

NP. Do you not see the irony of disliking how someone replied to you and replying in turn that "incoming parents are a**holes"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any post presenting a non booster’s view about what kind of prep a kid needs to succeed at BASIS is a troll post, got it. This old BASIS hand/troll can tell you that the price of success is to put up with a dreary school run by inexperienced admins with some good teachers.

Why is it that anyone with a positive experience is a "booster" and people with negative experiences or impressions are "telling the truth"? Also, we get it, you were affiliated with Basis as a teacher or parent and didn't like that a young admin told you that your double grad degrees were unmotivating and they were not going to change the program as per your suggestion. You chime in over and over again to speak about how young they all are as if anyone other than you cares. The leadership at a lot of charters is pretty green. Most of us judge a school based on the data and not some arbitrary minimum age of admins. Your fixation on young teachers is even more vexing. When I think about the best teachers my kids had in ES they were all young (under 30) and motivated and energetic. I don't care how old a teacher is as long as they have good classroom management skills, are SMEs and get results. By all empirical measures the Basis teachers achieve on all fronts.

If you like seniority having supremacy over results and skills and favor some sort of tenure system then by all means stay in DCPS. The tenure system seems to be keeping a lot of dead weight around and dissuading young and talented teachers from staying in DCPS, but you do you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BASIS needs no selling because the parents of hundreds of Ward 5 and 6 public school 4th graders are desperate for a public MS offering good discipline and academic rigor. They're happy to put up with the bad building, weak electives, and a slew of green admins and teachers.

Can you imagine carrying around this much animosity for a former employer? Poor dude (guessing) is so disgruntled that he spends his time following threads and chiming in aggressively on a school that he hasn't worked at in a number of years. I honestly feel pity for him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS needs no selling because the parents of hundreds of Ward 5 and 6 public school 4th graders are desperate for a public MS offering good discipline and academic rigor. They're happy to put up with the bad building, weak electives, and a slew of green admins and teachers.

Can you imagine carrying around this much animosity for a former employer? Poor dude (guessing) is so disgruntled that he spends his time following threads and chiming in aggressively on a school that he hasn't worked at in a number of years. I honestly feel pity for him.

I'm not the pp but I'm a ward 6 parent who agrees with the statement 100%

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS needs no selling because the parents of hundreds of Ward 5 and 6 public school 4th graders are desperate for a public MS offering good discipline and academic rigor. They're happy to put up with the bad building, weak electives, and a slew of green admins and teachers.

Can you imagine carrying around this much animosity for a former employer? Poor dude (guessing) is so disgruntled that he spends his time following threads and chiming in aggressively on a school that he hasn't worked at in a number of years. I honestly feel pity for him.

I posted above. I'm not a former employee. I'm a current parent who won't be returning in the fall. I'm tired of dealing with admins and teachers who aren't very good at their jobs in a building that isn't healthy for the kids. I don't post on DCUM much. You guys need a life. BASIS is just OK a nd you know it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BASIS needs no selling because the parents of hundreds of Ward 5 and 6 public school 4th graders are desperate for a public MS offering good discipline and academic rigor. They're happy to put up with the bad building, weak electives, and a slew of green admins and teachers.

Can you imagine carrying around this much animosity for a former employer? Poor dude (guessing) is so disgruntled that he spends his time following threads and chiming in aggressively on a school that he hasn't worked at in a number of years. I honestly feel pity for him.

I posted above. I'm not a former employee. I'm a current parent who won't be returning in the fall. I'm tired of dealing with admins and teachers who aren't very good at their jobs in a building that isn't healthy for the kids. I don't post on DCUM much. You guys need a life. BASIS is just OK a nd you know it.

Basis wasn’t a good fit for your kid and your kid dropped out. But you claim to speak for parents whose kids who are happy at the school and thriving.

Got it.