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[quote=Anonymous]Wow: “ BASIS Independent McLean is about 5 years old. As a new school, it should come as no surprising that there will be some growing pains. But these pains are amplified by the lack of experience of staff and sheer absence of senior management. And these inevitably lead to an environment where your young child will be publicly shamed and bullied by his/her teacher, and this sets a bad example for other children to follow. Of course you can always pull your child out and transfer to another school. But this can be costly, disruptive, and stressful to a young child. Most of the teachers are pretty good, but some are truly bad. Management is always bad. In one year, all will seem fine. And in fact, we promoted BASIS to our friends and colleagues. But in another you may end up with the teacher from hell, like our child experienced. Our child's teacher was poorly trained on the needs and support of young children. This teacher, as with all teachers in the early grades who are labeled as Learning Expert Teachers, accompanied children all day; subject matters such as English and math, among subject, are taught by other teachers. And so the potential for emotional abuse and bullying is present all day. And our child was no longer safe. What is even more troubling, is that senior management will not be there to support your young child and address the behavior of the teacher. The Director of Toddler-Grade 3 will most likely ignore your request for support. Make sure you take good notes and document every interaction with her. As for the head of school, the school had 4 in its five years of existence. The first two left in the middle of their contracts. The third, Paul Geise not to be confuse with the current acting head Mr Shorbe, is not well versed on the needs of young children, and his circle-the-wagon mindset is a disservice to the good teachers at BASIS, fails to bring accountability to the bad teachers, and most importantly protect our child. Of course we could not approach the Chinese firm that owns BASIS. Eventually, we did transfer our child, and our lives are getting better. And hopefully we will leave the memory of BASIS behind us. We all have the resources to engage education consultants in choosing a school. Do your homework and choose wisely beforehand, and avoid the trauma that our young child experienced.”[/quote]

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