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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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There were more than 3 emails-a quick word search will tell you that-please drop it-also, the 25 slots WAS settled well before it was dropped-o. The Basis listserv, Jeff Jacobs listed something like 6 different dates where Basis parents received written notice about the 25 available spots, many of those dates in plenty of time for parents to do something about them. This has been mentioned to you or the other woman more than twice, yet you keep bringing it up, or making new threads asking why people left, whether people were leaving after 8th etc. Instead of lamenting the past which is now lost, lets do something about the future, and stop repelling people and doing more harm with this noise and excessive repetitive emails, ok?[/quote]

There may have been many more than three responses to her emails, but that is what a word search would reveal.

The 25 slots has [b]not been settled nor explained, I love how I keep asking people to provide me with an answer, and no one can.  So why not just concede the point[/b]

Please have someone very patient explain to you why the past is relevant to the present and the future.  They would clearly have to be [b]very patient[/b]  As a parent of a child in the US, why there was a mass exodus is important to me because I would like to prevent it from happening this year.  You sound like one of the many parents who have just parked their kid here for MS and does not give a fuck about our future.  Fine, but own it.  And shut up.  The way you do something about the future is to examine the past, idiot.

How did we screw up so badly that we went from a waiting list to not being able to fill our 6th grade?
Why did so many of our "top students" leave when they knew they would have to take World History all over again, get no credit for Biology etc?  Sorry but my kid went to the expo and it was crystal clear no credit would be offered.  They left anyway, some of them repeating 9th grade, with eyes wide open.

Do you think [b]maybe[/b] figuring out why they left in the US might keep others like them here in the future?  Or should we just move on, praying to whom?  Do you think maybe looking at what we did might enable us to fill our 6th grade next year?  Or is that too much dwelling for you.  No idea who Jacobs is, but you are judged by whom you associate with.

So my idiot "let's not dwell on the past" poster, what was the famous quote.....  Cannot quite conjure it because exposure to you has fried my brain cells, something akin to those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it?

We are not even three full years old.  The idea that these US students left because we were not fully enrolled does not fly with me.  So I was responsible for one of the 4 threads on that issue.  Iasked, and was shut down, by a bunch of idiotic Boosters, no doubt you played your role.  Thank you for interfering with our ability to learn from our mistakes.

Now grab a lollipop, aka a gobstopper, and think before you give us the doubtful pleasure of again listening to your stupid theories.

How do you solve problems?  You figure out all the W's.  What went wrong, why, how, when, and who should have fixed it.  [b]Have we heard anything on this subject re the 25 open spots for 6th from are HOS?  Absolutely not[/b]

But for those of you who could care less if history repeats itself, by all means stop dwelling, move on, both from our losses at the bottom and at the top because something will magically happen to change the situation without our needlessly questioning our HOS.  Again, getting the STRONG feeling it does not affect your kid in the long term.

Perhaps the other poster was right, it is "love it or leave it."  But for my particular child, who oddly enough I care about to the exclusion of all others, I do not want to see their friends leave after this year.  Forgive me for trying to figure out why.

And forgive me for calling you an idiot.  But you sure do a pretty good imitation of one.[/quote]

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