BASIS DC to open in 2012-2013

[Anonymous]

^ Well said 16:54!

[Anonymous]

Why the negativity against BASIS DC?. Here's why? They screwed with two things that rile people (a) their children and (b) their money

(a) BASIS DC screwed with peoples' children

- BASIS DC discriminates against black children. In past weeks federal civil right lawyers have take multiple trips to BASIS DC. For one thing BASIS DC is surprisingly comfortable racially segregating classrooms. It's a fact. If not the case, do you think the federal government will waste so much time at the school.

- BASIS DC does not want SPED children. If they were concerned about SPED kids why the newly hired SPED coordinator was not hired in the beginning of the year. Isn't it suspicious this woman was hired after investigators from OSSE, PSCB and OCR began probing. The top people hate SPED kids and will do everything to push them out.

(b) BASIS DC screws with peoples money.

- BASIS DC misuses tax payer dollars by essentially giving rich white kids a private school education. Why is it ok that BASIS DC uses the money, paid in taxes, from poor black families from Anacostia so rich white kids from NW can have a free education. What's worse many of these poor black kids made up the high attrition rate that BASIS DC experienced. They made it difficult for these kids to succeed. They set them up for failure, forced them to leave but pocketed the federal money they got for these kids.

They're spreading the misuse of tax payer dollars for rich white kids like Great Heart is doing in San Antonio. Choose to Succeed donated to Great Heart. But guess what? they also donated to BASIS to spread the white love in Texas

Think I'm crazy? Why would a respected professor of education and statistics Gene V. Glass report this same concern.

http://ed2worlds.blogspot.com/2012/11/may-i-have-envelope-please-and-pulitzer.html

http://ed2worlds.blogspot.com/2012/12/judge-us-by-our-results.html

Still think I'm crazy? Why would a respected Arizona journalist Anne Ryman report the same concern

http://www.texasobserver.org/san-antonio-donors-court-a-charter-school-with-a-record-of-serving-wealthy-white-students/

Still think I'm crazy? You get the point. Here's Prof. Julian Vasquez Heilig about the same stuff

http://cloakinginequity.com/2013/04/19/what-basis-nepotism-and-aggrandizement-in-charters/
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So Parents don't be fooled by the "top ranking US school" and all their fluff. White or Black, don't support this school and take your kids out. Either in near future or especially in the long run you will regret doing so. You will regret feeding a racist monster that Dr. King, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglas, Thurgood Marshall, Maya Angelou, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and perhaps some of your very own ancestors (black or white) fought so hard to eradicate.

BASIS DC here's your solution, become private and many of your problems will disappear. It will be much easier to discriminate with out the hassle of investigators asking questions, or poor black families bringing their children ( who you think are unable to be educated). Otherwise, the "bashing" "hate" as you call it will not stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why the negativity against BASIS DC?. Here's why? They screwed with two things that rile people (a) their children and (b) their money

(a) BASIS DC screwed with peoples' children

- BASIS DC discriminates against black children. In past weeks federal civil right lawyers have take multiple trips to BASIS DC. For one thing BASIS DC is surprisingly comfortable racially segregating classrooms. It's a fact. If not the case, do you think the federal government will waste so much time at the school.

- BASIS DC does not want SPED children. If they were concerned about SPED kids why the newly hired SPED coordinator was not hired in the beginning of the year. Isn't it suspicious this woman was hired after investigators from OSSE, PSCB and OCR began probing. The top people hate SPED kids and will do everything to push them out.

(b) BASIS DC screws with peoples money.

- BASIS DC misuses tax payer dollars by essentially giving rich white kids a private school education. Why is it ok that BASIS DC uses the money, paid in taxes, from poor black families from Anacostia so rich white kids from NW can have a free education. What's worse many of these poor black kids made up the high attrition rate that BASIS DC experienced. They made it difficult for these kids to succeed. They set them up for failure, forced them to leave but pocketed the federal money they got for these kids.

They're spreading the misuse of tax payer dollars for rich white kids like Great Heart is doing in San Antonio. Choose to Succeed donated to Great Heart. But guess what? they also donated to BASIS to spread the white love in Texas

Think I'm crazy? Why would a respected professor of education and statistics Gene V. Glass report this same concern.

http://ed2worlds.blogspot.com/2012/11/may-i-have-envelope-please-and-pulitzer.html

http://ed2worlds.blogspot.com/2012/12/judge-us-by-our-results.html

Still think I'm crazy? Why would a respected Arizona journalist Anne Ryman report the same concern

http://www.texasobserver.org/san-antonio-donors-court-a-charter-school-with-a-record-of-serving-wealthy-white-students/

Still think I'm crazy? You get the point. Here's Prof. Julian Vasquez Heilig about the same stuff

http://cloakinginequity.com/2013/04/19/what-basis-nepotism-and-aggrandizement-in-charters/
____________________

So Parents don't be fooled by the "top ranking US school" and all their fluff. White or Black, don't support this school and take your kids out. Either in near future or especially in the long run you will regret doing so. You will regret feeding a racist monster that Dr. King, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglas, Thurgood Marshall, Maya Angelou, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and perhaps some of your very own ancestors (black or white) fought so hard to eradicate.

BASIS DC here's your solution, become private and many of your problems will disappear. It will be much easier to discriminate with out the hassle of investigators asking questions, or poor black families bringing their children ( who you think are unable to be educated). Otherwise, the "bashing" "hate" as you call it will not stop.

a big lol

[Anonymous]

Parents don't believe their fluff about athletics unless you think a handful of children tossing a ball around constitutes an athletics program. Don't believe me.

Ask the school the following.

-What leagues did they compete in?
-How many members were in each sport?
-Where are the BASIS DC athletic uniforms?
-What pictures do they have showing kids competing in a number of sports?
-Where do they hold practices?
-What sport equipment do they have?
-Where are the athletic buses that transport players to and from practice and games?
- Where are practices and games held?
- Why do they charge over $150 per "athletic" student? What is this money used for?

[Anonymous]

"a big lol" - Is a typical BASIS response. They can't take a child's education seriously. For one thing I admire their audacity to so openly discriminate against blacks, considering President Obama is just a few metro stops away and the Honorable Congressman John Lewis is even closer.

[Anonymous]

Chuckle effing chuckle !!!

[Anonymous]

Basis is a freaking joke. Might as well be called the Jim Jones Academy where Kool-Aid is their team mascot.

*HeyKoolaid*

[Anonymous]

Oh you poor things, did Basis and the NW whites hurt your feelings?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why the negativity against BASIS DC?. Here's why? They screwed with two things that rile people (a) their children and (b) their money

(a) BASIS DC screwed with peoples' children

- BASIS DC discriminates against black children. In past weeks federal civil right lawyers have take multiple trips to BASIS DC. For one thing BASIS DC is surprisingly comfortable racially segregating classrooms. It's a fact. If not the case, do you think the federal government will waste so much time at the school.

- BASIS DC does not want SPED children. If they were concerned about SPED kids why the newly hired SPED coordinator was not hired in the beginning of the year. Isn't it suspicious this woman was hired after investigators from OSSE, PSCB and OCR began probing. The top people hate SPED kids and will do everything to push them out.

(b) BASIS DC screws with peoples money.

- BASIS DC misuses tax payer dollars by essentially giving rich white kids a private school education. Why is it ok that BASIS DC uses the money, paid in taxes, from poor black families from Anacostia so rich white kids from NW can have a free education. What's worse many of these poor black kids made up the high attrition rate that BASIS DC experienced. They made it difficult for these kids to succeed. They set them up for failure, forced them to leave but pocketed the federal money they got for these kids.

They're spreading the misuse of tax payer dollars for rich white kids like Great Heart is doing in San Antonio. Choose to Succeed donated to Great Heart. But guess what? they also donated to BASIS to spread the white love in Texas

Think I'm crazy? Why would a respected professor of education and statistics Gene V. Glass report this same concern.

http://ed2worlds.blogspot.com/2012/11/may-i-have-envelope-please-and-pulitzer.html

http://ed2worlds.blogspot.com/2012/12/judge-us-by-our-results.html

Still think I'm crazy? Why would a respected Arizona journalist Anne Ryman report the same concern

http://www.texasobserver.org/san-antonio-donors-court-a-charter-school-with-a-record-of-serving-wealthy-white-students/

Still think I'm crazy? You get the point. Here's Prof. Julian Vasquez Heilig about the same stuff

http://cloakinginequity.com/2013/04/19/what-basis-nepotism-and-aggrandizement-in-charters/
____________________

So Parents don't be fooled by the "top ranking US school" and all their fluff. White or Black, don't support this school and take your kids out. Either in near future or especially in the long run you will regret doing so. You will regret feeding a racist monster that Dr. King, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglas, Thurgood Marshall, Maya Angelou, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and perhaps some of your very own ancestors (black or white) fought so hard to eradicate.

BASIS DC here's your solution, become private and many of your problems will disappear. It will be much easier to discriminate with out the hassle of investigators asking questions, or poor black families bringing their children ( who you think are unable to be educated). Otherwise, the "bashing" "hate" as you call it will not stop.

Please stop using th race card! Basis has only been open for a year. So if your child was placed in a class which happens to be all AA, it is not the schools fault they are trying to help your child. You and yiur child's other school fell them, not Basis.
On anither note I see alot of Maryland tags picking up and dropping off older kids at Basis. MAYBE THE SCHOOL.NEEDS TO LOOK INTO THIS PROBLEM.
Signed,
Parent of an AA special needs child, that is doing very well at Basis!

[Anonymous]

I am pp. Failed*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why the negativity against BASIS DC?. Here's why? They screwed with two things that rile people (a) their children and (b) their money

(a) BASIS DC screwed with peoples' children

- BASIS DC discriminates against black children. In past weeks federal civil right lawyers have take multiple trips to BASIS DC. For one thing BASIS DC is surprisingly comfortable racially segregating classrooms. It's a fact. If not the case, do you think the federal government will waste so much time at the school.

- BASIS DC does not want SPED children. If they were concerned about SPED kids why the newly hired SPED coordinator was not hired in the beginning of the year. Isn't it suspicious this woman was hired after investigators from OSSE, PSCB and OCR began probing. The top people hate SPED kids and will do everything to push them out.

(b) BASIS DC screws with peoples money.

- BASIS DC misuses tax payer dollars by essentially giving rich white kids a private school education. Why is it ok that BASIS DC uses the money, paid in taxes, from poor black families from Anacostia so rich white kids from NW can have a free education. What's worse many of these poor black kids made up the high attrition rate that BASIS DC experienced. They made it difficult for these kids to succeed. They set them up for failure, forced them to leave but pocketed the federal money they got for these kids.

They're spreading the misuse of tax payer dollars for rich white kids like Great Heart is doing in San Antonio. Choose to Succeed donated to Great Heart. But guess what? they also donated to BASIS to spread the white love in Texas

Think I'm crazy? Why would a respected professor of education and statistics Gene V. Glass report this same concern.

http://ed2worlds.blogspot.com/2012/11/may-i-have-envelope-please-and-pulitzer.html

http://ed2worlds.blogspot.com/2012/12/judge-us-by-our-results.html

Still think I'm crazy? Why would a respected Arizona journalist Anne Ryman report the same concern

http://www.texasobserver.org/san-antonio-donors-court-a-charter-school-with-a-record-of-serving-wealthy-white-students/

Still think I'm crazy? You get the point. Here's Prof. Julian Vasquez Heilig about the same stuff

http://cloakinginequity.com/2013/04/19/what-basis-nepotism-and-aggrandizement-in-charters/
____________________

So Parents don't be fooled by the "top ranking US school" and all their fluff. White or Black, don't support this school and take your kids out. Either in near future or especially in the long run you will regret doing so. You will regret feeding a racist monster that Dr. King, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglas, Thurgood Marshall, Maya Angelou, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and perhaps some of your very own ancestors (black or white) fought so hard to eradicate.

BASIS DC here's your solution, become private and many of your problems will disappear. It will be much easier to discriminate with out the hassle of investigators asking questions, or poor black families bringing their children ( who you think are unable to be educated). Otherwise, the "bashing" "hate" as you call it will not stop.

With this kind of idiots around no wonder kids don't do well in school.

[Anonymous]

19:23:

You claim there are segregated classrooms. That would have to mean mean there are classrooms with no black kids. I know for a fact that this is absolutely false.

You claim they do not want special needs kids. I know for a fact that there are special needs kids there who thrived this year.

You claim that it gives rich white kids a private school education - that is complete nonsense as it is open to all takers.

You claim they "make it difficult for poor black kids to succeed" - the far bigger thing that made it difficult for poor black kids to succeed is the atrociously bad education they received prior to coming to Basis , and the unwillingness of those kids to take advantage of the extra support, tutoring and opportunities that Basis offered.

Your claims are complete nonsense and have zero merit. These same wild claims were made about Two Rivers and other schools, and as always before did not stand up to any scrutiny when they were investigated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why the negativity against BASIS DC?. Here's why? They screwed with two things that rile people (a) their children and (b) their money

(a) BASIS DC screwed with peoples' children

- BASIS DC discriminates against black children. In past weeks federal civil right lawyers have take multiple trips to BASIS DC. For one thing BASIS DC is surprisingly comfortable racially segregating classrooms. It's a fact. If not the case, do you think the federal government will waste so much time at the school.

- BASIS DC does not want SPED children. If they were concerned about SPED kids why the newly hired SPED coordinator was not hired in the beginning of the year. Isn't it suspicious this woman was hired after investigators from OSSE, PSCB and OCR began probing. The top people hate SPED kids and will do everything to push them out.

(b) BASIS DC screws with peoples money.

- BASIS DC misuses tax payer dollars by essentially giving rich white kids a private school education. Why is it ok that BASIS DC uses the money, paid in taxes, from poor black families from Anacostia so rich white kids from NW can have a free education. What's worse many of these poor black kids made up the high attrition rate that BASIS DC experienced. They made it difficult for these kids to succeed. They set them up for failure, forced them to leave but pocketed the federal money they got for these kids.

They're spreading the misuse of tax payer dollars for rich white kids like Great Heart is doing in San Antonio. Choose to Succeed donated to Great Heart. But guess what? they also donated to BASIS to spread the white love in Texas

Think I'm crazy? Why would a respected professor of education and statistics Gene V. Glass report this same concern.

http://ed2worlds.blogspot.com/2012/11/may-i-have-envelope-please-and-pulitzer.html

http://ed2worlds.blogspot.com/2012/12/judge-us-by-our-results.html

Still think I'm crazy? Why would a respected Arizona journalist Anne Ryman report the same concern

http://www.texasobserver.org/san-antonio-donors-court-a-charter-school-with-a-record-of-serving-wealthy-white-students/

Still think I'm crazy? You get the point. Here's Prof. Julian Vasquez Heilig about the same stuff

http://cloakinginequity.com/2013/04/19/what-basis-nepotism-and-aggrandizement-in-charters/
____________________

So Parents don't be fooled by the "top ranking US school" and all their fluff. White or Black, don't support this school and take your kids out. Either in near future or especially in the long run you will regret doing so. You will regret feeding a racist monster that Dr. King, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglas, Thurgood Marshall, Maya Angelou, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and perhaps some of your very own ancestors (black or white) fought so hard to eradicate.

BASIS DC here's your solution, become private and many of your problems will disappear. It will be much easier to discriminate with out the hassle of investigators asking questions, or poor black families bringing their children ( who you think are unable to be educated). Otherwise, the "bashing" "hate" as you call it will not stop.

19:32, I would contend that you are the racist here, because you are basically putting forward a premise of low expectations, that poor black kids are somehow not capable of learning the same material that the other kids are learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents don't believe their fluff about athletics unless you think a handful of children tossing a ball around constitutes an athletics program. Don't believe me.

Ask the school the following.

-What leagues did they compete in?
-How many members were in each sport?
-Where are the BASIS DC athletic uniforms?
-What pictures do they have showing kids competing in a number of sports?
-Where do they hold practices?
-What sport equipment do they have?
-Where are the athletic buses that transport players to and from practice and games?
- Where are practices and games held?
- Why do they charge over $150 per "athletic" student? What is this money used for?

I on't think there's any fluff about athletics -- they currently don't have any. And we don't care. Iwould be perfectly happy if neither of my DCs ever see the inside of an "athletic bus". I can find them sports programs thoughout the area. I cannot find them high quality public education in DC. I do not send my children to school for athletics and do not want them to aspire to be pro athletes (and on't want the school to overly venerate athletes).

[Anonymous]

Hi my kids are attending BASIS next year, and we are trying to get more info on the BOSS and STARS program. They also seem to not be doing the Arts program this year they did last year for kids who needed an aftercare option. They have already changed the dates and offerings twice, but since school needed for them early, no one has been able to answer my questions on whether it is worth it to take the stars program if the kids are going to miss a week of the program and if they will be having some buddy metro riding or activities option for kids who don't have parents picking them up in the afternoon. Anyone have some info about all this? Sending the kids to a 3 hour a day program when I have a little one at home and canceling our vacation to do so because the only stars program available conflicts with vacation is a LOT to do blind-I have written and called Abby and Caroline, the registrar and coordinator and have received no reply-help!