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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ who cares?!? They are HELPING children by providing good schools. Is there some conspiracy to make our children smarter? How dare they learn in a non-private setting![/quote]

To address the previous two posters on the profit motive of the Blocks and the various BASIS legal entities. BASIS Schools Inc is a non-profit shell entity. It leases everything from teachers to real estate to curriculum materials from BASIS EDUCATIONAL GROUP, which is a for-profit "education management organization." I agree with the PP that this is not as important an issue as whether BASIS is providing a valuable service to parents and students, and I personally do not think the Blocks are engaging in fraudulent activity whatsoever but, as a teacher and parent and a taxpayer, I do have concerns about this arrangement, primarily because I simply don't like the lack of transparency and because I worry the profit motive will jeopardize the success of every BASIS campus. Originally BASIS was a local community of teachers and students in Tucson and Scottsdale. The only command from "higher up" (the Blocks) was to produce good AP test results. Now, since the for profit venture and rapid expansion, everything has been centralized, massive amounts of funds have been diverted from the classroom to administration and national development teams, school budgets have been tightened, class sizes have increased, curriculum scope and sequence is constantly tweaked and accelerated, teacher hours and responsibilities have increased while pay is largely frozen. BASIS is expanding and selling its "recipe for success" (again, in my mind, largely for profit) based on a reputation earned over many years by teachers and students at the original few campuses. [/quote]

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