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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There were 4 "if you left BASIS" threads, and a whole bunch of "join my facebook listserv," "I can't believe 25 6th grader spots are gone and no one told us until it was too late" "chemistry candy gate" and "I am a Luddite" emails. She wrote a bunch of them, but unlikely all of them, but I say everyone drop it. The various points have been beaten to death, and this has gotten silly and ridiculous and it is time to move on.[/quote]

[b]I[/b] have an issue with the 25 spots and intend to try to bring it up at the next coffee hour.  I want to know why it happened, and how HOS intends to prevent it from happening in this year's lottery.  Bottom line is this is about money, people.  We do not get money for empty spots.  We can hardly ask to expand if we cannot fill our school.  I also agree that we all have neighborhood list serves we could have posted the openings on had we been told earlier. So:

Are you all going to boo me down or throw popcorn at me?  I agree that it is time to move on here, but I think you people ought to be ashamed of how far this went and in what direction.  It is not like she is a deranged dangerous person who has done permanent damage to the school.  Unless you are gullible enough to blame her for shutting down the list serve when they "had been thinking about it for some time" - read ante FB Luddite Candygate which were all in the same friggin [b]3[/b] emails.

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I'm too polite to boo at you during open forum, but I will be annoyed if you insist on beating the dead horse that is the 25 6th grade spots. What do you want to hear? In your opinion, what would be an appropriate response from the administration? This was already brought up and talked about at the last parent coffee. I don't understand what more you want? If you really like BASIS, why aren't you posting on your community listserv about it already? Or talking directly to friends with younger children about it? I'm sure if you'd like to organize a parent information night at your home or at your local library or church or wherever, you can do this and it would be welcomed and appreciated.

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I always talk about Basis at my ES and everywhere I go, completely enthusiastically. I have more than one child there now. I did get the spaces for 5th and 6th posted on a few neighborhood list serves, not just my own, so don't start with the you complain but do nothing crapola.

We had a substantial wait list for 6th grade after the lottery.  We ended up down an Element.  In a per pupil funding system this is a money issue, money we have permanently lost.  It would also be an issue if Basis went back to the Charter Board requesting permission to expand "for financial reasons," which is what the HOS did our first year.  If we cannot fully enroll the two grades in which we accept kids, I can't see them granting us permission to expand.  Perhaps finances have changed.  Perhaps 25 losses don't matter.  Perhaps we don't need to expand.

But no one has explained how or why it happened (was it the unified lottery?  Did we call people too late?)  
What did we do wrong, and how are we going to fix it in the future?  Simple questions, and they never have been answered - or if you think they have, [b]answer them for me here[/b] and I'll find some other reason for you to throw peanuts at me....

TIA

I did get the "we have identified a few spaces" posted on my list serve and two others, so don't start with the you complain but do nothing crapola[/quote]

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