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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh come on, [b]BASIS is "not good" about a great deal.  Celebrating joy, fun, fresh air, creativity, using fantastic city resources like museums and mentoring relationships at federal agencies to teach kids, drawing on parent resources to advance learning and fund-raising, academic tracking beyond math, supporting kids who struggle etc. etc.[/b]  They're a damn sight better than other DC public middle school programs, other than Deal, but that's about it.  Let's not get mired in relativism here.

The constant churn of heads is really taking a toll on the program.  We came from Maury, where the same wonderful principal has been in place for 8 years.  What a godsend she's been. [/quote]

As the above pp says, "Basis is not good about anything". I can tell you as an educator whose taught in public and charter, now teaching in private, there's a growing group of entrepreneurs who believe the best way to teach urban students (not limited to the poor) is by controlling them, having them mimic instructors and insisting on 100% compliance. And we (teachers and families) have invited those leaders into our communities. The "no excuses policies", to me, is the very lowest expectation an adult can have for a student. These schools like BASIS and KIPP and any other charter prep, assume the worst of students and build an environment based on the notion that kids don't have any knowledge. Rather, than create a therapeutic, safe environment ,students are treated like inmates in juvie. [/quote]

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