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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow I wasn't expecting this meeting to get so intense. Seems very weird to be digging in their heels so hard over a few years of ramp-up which is of course the norm in our city [/quote]

What I think is weird is that Basis submitted a "conservative" proposal that they then acknowledged openly they had no interest in following. They said that they submitted it because the charter board made clear that it was the option they could consider approving. So did Basis submit it only in order to get another opportunity to present their case to the board and hope to persuade them to consider a different option? If I were a board member I would have pointed out to Basis that this is a disingenuous waste of the board's time.

The former HoS also made a bunch of laughable and untrue statements -- like that 10 students is "10% of the incoming class, because we admit only a little over 100 students in 5th grade." They admit 135 fifth graders, which is 35% more than 100. The Basis folks said plenty of reasonable things, but lying about the small stuff undercuts the credibility of the rest. [/quote]

Same poster: Scratch that, one of the board members DID ask that question: "You all put this proposal in front of us. ... So why did you put it in front of us if you weren't really ready to do it?"[/quote]

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