BASIS Lottery ONLY for 5th grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You language immersion folks are insufferable.

Let’s agree that Basis is not good at teaching advanced languages and that doing so — and overseeing the administration of allowing for exceptions — is not their priority.

If that bugs you, go to DCI.

Yes, no public school in this city should ever strive to meet the needs of taxpayers/parents by offering them a little flexibility to help their students aim high in college admissions.

No program should ever respect individual preferences, skills or talents. Dangerous and wrong to do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You language immersion folks are insufferable.

Let’s agree that Basis is not good at teaching advanced languages and that doing so — and overseeing the administration of allowing for exceptions — is not their priority.

If that bugs you, go to DCI.

Yes, no public school in this city should ever strive to meet the needs of taxpayers/parents by offering them a little flexibility to help their students aim high in college admissions.

No program should ever respect individual preferences, skills or talents. Dangerous and wrong to do this.

It is wrong and arrogant to expect a single 5-12 charter school with a total of 662 students (in crappy facilities) to be everything to everyone by catering to individual preferences.

E.g., your proposal of having privately paid tutors come in — what spare classroom were you offering up? And which school administrator was going to oversee this (in order to deal with accountability and liability issues)? I’m sure there are endless other reasons why this is not in the school’s interests.

I stand by my insufferable comment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You language immersion folks are insufferable.

Let’s agree that Basis is not good at teaching advanced languages and that doing so — and overseeing the administration of allowing for exceptions — is not their priority.

If that bugs you, go to DCI.

Yes, no public school in this city should ever strive to meet the needs of taxpayers/parents by offering them a little flexibility to help their students aim high in college admissions.

No program should ever respect individual preferences, skills or talents. Dangerous and wrong to do this.

It is wrong and arrogant to expect a single 5-12 charter school with a total of 662 students (in crappy facilities) to be everything to everyone by catering to individual preferences.

E.g., your proposal of having privately paid tutors come in — what spare classroom were you offering up? And which school administrator was going to oversee this (in order to deal with accountability and liability issues)? I’m sure there are endless other reasons why this is not in the school’s interests.

I stand by my insufferable comment.

When do I get to demand that DCI take my kid who doesn't speak a language but who is doing 7th grade math in 5th?

The charter system is good because it allows variety. That's one of the best parts of it.

[Anonymous]

Basis language people are angry because one of the best middle/high schools in the city doesn't offer them something they want. They wouldn't care if it wasn't so successful. My guess is that they aren't considering DCI because its new and scores aren't so great. So they rail against Basis for being successful but not catering to their needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You language immersion folks are insufferable.

Let’s agree that Basis is not good at teaching advanced languages and that doing so — and overseeing the administration of allowing for exceptions — is not their priority.

If that bugs you, go to DCI.

This. BTW it’s not all language immersion families. It’s quite obvious it’s the same poster over again and again in all the Basis threads complaining of languages. It just gets old, they feel they should be special to get an exception, and still gripe about it instead of moving on.

We don’t have a child at Basis. In fact, our DC is in a language immersion elementary charter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Basis language people are angry because one of the best middle/high schools in the city doesn't offer them something they want. They wouldn't care if it wasn't so successful. My guess is that they aren't considering DCI because its new and scores aren't so great. So they rail against Basis for being successful but not catering to their needs.

Nope, your reasoning is flawed. it’s not all language immersion families. It’s one poster again and again.

The majority of immersion families go on to DCI and if you look at scores of all public/charter middle schools in the city, their scores are pretty decent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basis language people are angry because one of the best middle/high schools in the city doesn't offer them something they want. They wouldn't care if it wasn't so successful. My guess is that they aren't considering DCI because its new and scores aren't so great. So they rail against Basis for being successful but not catering to their needs.

Nope, your reasoning is flawed. it’s not all language immersion families. It’s one poster again and again.

The majority of immersion families go on to DCI and if you look at scores of all public/charter middle schools in the city, their scores are pretty decent.

There was one poster going on about Chinese and another about Spanish. Happy to be wrong, but it does feel like more than one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basis language people are angry because one of the best middle/high schools in the city doesn't offer them something they want. They wouldn't care if it wasn't so successful. My guess is that they aren't considering DCI because its new and scores aren't so great. So they rail against Basis for being successful but not catering to their needs.

Nope, your reasoning is flawed. it’s not all language immersion families. It’s one poster again and again.

The majority of immersion families go on to DCI and if you look at scores of all public/charter middle schools in the city, their scores are pretty decent.

There was one poster going on about Chinese and another about Spanish. Happy to be wrong, but it does feel like more than one.

It’s definitely two. The Spanish one is not quite as bad as the Chinese one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Basis language people are angry because one of the best middle/high schools in the city doesn't offer them something they want. They wouldn't care if it wasn't so successful. My guess is that they aren't considering DCI because its new and scores aren't so great. So they rail against Basis for being successful but not catering to their needs.

I hardly ever post about BASIS, which two of my children attended for middle school. They left for Walls. But nobody should be coming here to defend their bone-headed language teaching policy. Honestly, it's just dumb. A few years ago, BASIS got rid of a seriously good Spanish teacher who was doing her best to give immersion Spanish students sufficiently challenging work in her class, sitting alongside beginning Spanish students. Her approach embodied common sense, not "catering" to the needs of entitled families. Nobody's mentioned this teacher on this thread, but she's come up before.

[Anonymous]

I remember the teacher and wish she could have stayed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basis language people are angry because one of the best middle/high schools in the city doesn't offer them something they want. They wouldn't care if it wasn't so successful. My guess is that they aren't considering DCI because its new and scores aren't so great. So they rail against Basis for being successful but not catering to their needs.

Nope, your reasoning is flawed. it’s not all language immersion families. It’s one poster again and again.

The majority of immersion families go on to DCI and if you look at scores of all public/charter middle schools in the city, their scores are pretty decent.

There was one poster going on about Chinese and another about Spanish. Happy to be wrong, but it does feel like more than one.

It’s definitely two. The Spanish one is not quite as bad as the Chinese one.

+1. The Chinese one is the worst. Same BS complaint every time.

[Anonymous]

No, the inveterate boosters are the worst on these threads.

BASIS admins can do no wrong.

C'mon, the program doesn't go from around 130 mostly bright and hard-working 5th graders to four dozen seniors without a whole bunch of families finding BASIS lacking.

[Anonymous]

Which is why charters aren't the answer. Taxpayers don't have a say in how they're run. There's almost no accountability.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basis language people are angry because one of the best middle/high schools in the city doesn't offer them something they want. They wouldn't care if it wasn't so successful. My guess is that they aren't considering DCI because its new and scores aren't so great. So they rail against Basis for being successful but not catering to their needs.

I hardly ever post about BASIS, which two of my children attended for middle school. They left for Walls. But nobody should be coming here to defend their bone-headed language teaching policy. Honestly, it's just dumb. A few years ago, BASIS got rid of a seriously good Spanish teacher who was doing her best to give immersion Spanish students sufficiently challenging work in her class, sitting alongside beginning Spanish students. Her approach embodied common sense, not "catering" to the needs of entitled families. Nobody's mentioned this teacher on this thread, but she's come up before.

I don't think anyone is defending their approach, but rather saying that they have an approach that may not be compatible with a family who is focused on high level language early on. If it's not compatible, it's not going to work. So a family who prioritizes high level language should not choose Basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which is why charters aren't the answer. Taxpayers don't have a say in how they're run. There's almost no accountability.

Seriously? Because Basis doesn't cater to immersion students it shouldn't exist?