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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard they blocked it due to excessive use of capital letters.[/quote]

HA Ha ha.

That would be funny if they had not just destroyed, to give an example, the way parents find a group of people remotely in their neighborhood to privately fund buses to get their ten year olds from wherever to Basis.  They usually post an area, and last year we were on a waitlist.

Ironically, almost no one posting on the Basis list serve uses capital letters to make their points.

Less ironic, but no less true, is that they have just destroyed the only way Basis parents had to share information school wide.  NOW (and yes, I did, and I do not apologize) THAT raises some serious issues about censorship writ large, not parents being "moderated" on the list serve itself.

They created this space so that parents who will never meet on playgrounds and are unlikely to meet anywhere else (sorry, but volunteering to be the tool of the administration where I tell parents that they need to give money but I have no idea how it will be spent, or volunteering for the gala/auction planning are not high on my to-do list), could share items of interest or issues that they thought concerned the ENTIRE Basis community.

Why couldn't they just have left it in place? Even if it were to become the tower of Babel, and useless.

Is it if [b]we[/b], the Boosters and the administration [b]cannot have it[/b] - [b]because we cannot control it[/b] (meaning it has become too complicated to manage parent complaints and our arbitrary detailed rules requiring censoring on the list serve) [b]we will not allow anyone else to have it[/b], to use as a vehicle for anyone else to attempt to communicate with the entire school.

That is a BOOSTERS right.  We send out the emails (because of course we already have all the addresses), we decide what gets raised with the administration, or if not, how we will report it........

Did the Boosters give an account of what was discussed at the first informal "coffee hour?"  NO WAY
We don't want to report complaints about violence and bullying in the halls during the 5 minutes students are allowed to move from class to class, we don't want to report complaints raised by parents about anything.  We don't want to report the issue of how difficult it was for parents whose children had failed the comps, who risked being held back, to get access to the comp they failed, much less report a request for summer school, for some kind of help for these kids.

And we don't want parents to have a way to figure out if their experience is a "their child issue" or a Basis DC issue.  We are the ones who will now decide that exclusively, because we report on what happens at our meetings, and perhaps omit the inconvenient questions raised by parents like any issue concerning violence because it has gotten so so so much better in the last three years that in our esteemed opinion, the only opinion that now will be heard by the entire Basis community who have to work and cannot attend morning coffees,  will be our opinion, our version of what was raised at meetings, our decisions on what meetings to report on....[/quote]

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