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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For crying out loud -- does any ADULT really think that they will fail an entire chemistry class over behavior issues? OP is being as hysterical as an eighth grader. Stop whipping up your child into a frenzy.

The rookie mistake was by the unqualified dean who made a threat he can't deliver on -- I hope he becomes yet one more in a string of supposed male role models who aren't the right fit for this school. [/quote]

AMEN to that, brother.  But yes, there are at least two PARENTS who are still unclear on what the ultimate consequences are going to be for their children's Chemistry grades.  Neither of them understood the HOS email, and both of them share the feeling that while clearly the Chemistry teacher did not mean for anything like this to happen when she called the Dean, she is not in control of their grades because he said she wasn't.[/quote]

So other parents understood from the HOS email that grades would not be affected.
Perhaps the two parents who are uncertain should ask for clarification from the HOS.

[b]Your complaint is that the email was poorly written is rather ironic.[/b][/quote]

I don't usually point out grammatical errors, but I truly hope you were intoxicated when you wrote this...

I never said how many parents understood that.  
Some were too busy calming down their kids to even look at their computers 
IF THEY HAVE COMPUTERS BECAUSE NOT EVERYBODY IN THE FRIGGIN WORLD DOES

Again, maybe two parents, maybe three kids... you all are unbelievably unsympathetic broken records

How many scared kids should it take to get the man to simply step into the classroom and be clear with these kids:
the Dean does not have the power to change your grade, 
and he was wrong to threaten you.
Your grades are not going to be hurt in any way, and you can take that to the bank, kids, because I am HOS.

How many frightened or confused kids should it take? One! One is enough.  Every child counts.
Then maybe there will be no more crying in the bathroom.
Then maybe the 5th graders will stop speculating.

how many confused parents should it take for the man to get his head out of his ass for one second
and send an email to parents that says: 
The dean was wrong.  Your child's grade is safe and will not be hurt.  We are so sorry about what happened and any confusion it may have caused, but this is not the Basis way.  Basis believes that children earn their grades and no dean can change them.

How many confused parents should it take?  One! One is enough.  
Every parent decides where their child goes to school next year.
Every parent may be the parent of a "top student" who will be part of the exodus in the THIRD graduating class
Every parent may be the parent who is now definitely going to pull his kid out when they get into SWW
or start searching NOW for a private high school to give his "top" Basis student a full scholarship,
 b/c said child is maybe a candidate for HYP - such children do actually exist at Basis DC
minority, impoverished, first generation but with employed concerned parents who
GOT that child to Basis.  You think with a little help he cannot GET his child into a big 3 or 5 for 9th grade?
and you know what your precious Cameron has created here? 
A situation in which other parents in the section will gladly help him and sadly understand,
and not even ask him to reconsider because you know what, we get it.

How "ironic" is this?  Given how scared the kids were, how concerned the parents were, you tell me the irony you see in this STUPID STUPID STUPID email sent by our fearless leader.

Again, after this, your suggestion is that parents or children who are still scared and confused COMMUNICATE with this man?  Instead of him just getting off his high horse and communicating with them first??????? 
Because through his silence he is adding to the confusion, fueling the fire, providing more grist for the rumor mill

WHY should the burden be on them?  Parents or children?  They did not create this problem.  They did not sit back and watch it grow.  They did the best they could with what they had.  They did not try to get the Chemistry teacher to do their dirty work, to clean up their mess, to have a "meeting" with all of 8La with another staff member - and guess what, the kids didn't believe the chemistry teacher.  
I cannot believe that you find this remotely amusing.  
You are disgusting.

One of my best friends at my Ivy League college was the first in her family to be born in the US, and she was born into poverty.  Her parents still do not speak English.  But they don't have to.  At any given time they probably have at least 3 grateful children who will translate for them.

[b]On Oct 15, 2014 6:59 PM, "Cameron Louis" <cameron.louis@basisdc.org> wrote:

Good evening everyone,

I just wanted to take a quick moment to follow up regarding an incident that took place in Ms. Pickett’s Chemistry classroom and our response.  Our Dean of Students may have incorrectly messaged to the whole element that their grades might be adversely affected by one student’s decision to steal lab materials.  We’ve taken a number of steps to make sure that this messaging was retracted and that the students feel comfortable with what transpired.  I don’t want to make this a bigger issue than it was, but I did want to share with you all that no student’s grades will be negatively affected.  Thank you and know that we’re constantly reflecting on how to make BASIS the best, student-centered environment possible and on how to be better for all of your students.  Thank you all and I hope that you’re having a wonderful week!  [/b]

Please tell me, amidst the chaos of your crying child who is in true fear of FAILING chemistry, if you do not speak English, how you could possibly sit down and parse this opaque and idiotic communication?  What, they should ask their traumatized child to do it? Assuming they have a computer that is.  Do you think their first thought was we should go to the library and see if there is an email from fearless leader.... who hid behind the Chemistry teacher's skirt

Don't you get it?  The [b]Chemistry teacher[/b] has unequivocally at this point (because unlike the messaging man, or maybe at the request of the messaging man who realizes) as she realizes (as do other staff members) that she has a crisis on her hands

[b]tried to tell the kids that their grades are safe[/b]
they don't believe her
now put on your thinking cap and imagine how bad this encounter with the Dean really was to generate these "irrational" responses on the part of the students, and the lack of comprehension by some of the parents
who heard their kids try to describe the incident

[b]Then put your irony and your superiority complex (and your badly worded sentence) all in a pipe and smoke them.  And for the love of God Almighty, please please shut up.[/b]

You are giving all Basis parents a bad bad name, as if the reputation of the BOOSTERS was so great to begin with, that those of you with zero stake have now been going on for how many posts?  Maybe the devil is in the details, but I see nothing "ironic" about a Dean scaring a bunch of children, who are still on a hunt for the "criminal" who may be one of their closest friends in the class or heck may not even be in the element, about an idiotic email, about a man who is supposed to be our HOS who has been "messaged" by parents that there is still fear and confusion....DOING NOTHING
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