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[quote=Anonymous][quote]19:54, you must be quite dense.

Firstly, the question of experience has already been addressed in this thread in multiple ways - a.) that BASIS provides as much information on experience as any other school in the district, to include the top-performing charter and public schools, b.) that the information given shows that BASIS faculty in fact show at least as much experience as those other top-performing schools do, and c.) that they have a mature, established model that is in place in over a half dozen schools already, leaving very little about their practices as "questionable". And d.) given the vast majority of BASIS faculty list both subject matter expertise AND prior teaching experience, the issue of whether or not they can teach is also addressed.

And these issues of certified vs. not, of experience, et cetera SHOULD rightly be in their own threads, because again, they are NOT unique to BASIS. The same so-called "issues" of "questionable faculty" and "questionable practices" that you keep raising would, as pointed out, apply equally to Latin and all the other charters and privates as well. It's not uniquely a "BASIS" thing, and won't ever be no matter how many times you raise it.

So why don't you now go on off to those other threads and get Latin and the others to "own" it. [/quote]

I'm 19:54. You have some logic problems, PP.

A. The fact that BASIS posts as little info about teaching experience as other schools is not a plus. This isn't a race to the bottom.
B. Maybe, but again, that doesn't make BASIS a strong school with an excellent faculty. It makes them just like other charters. This may be good or it may be bad. We can't tell because it isn't open yet.
C. They do have an established model. In AZ. Which is not DC.
D. The only way to judge true subject matter expertise AND the value of prior teaching experience is once the school is open. You cannot possibly believe that the issue of whether or not they can teach is addressed when the teachers in question have not actually spent time...teaching.

You seem to be fixated on my posts, as if I am the only person raising these issues. I get that. You're a much more sympathetic character if you're perceived as fighting one lone, bitter critic. Unfortunately for you, that is not the case.

I will stay here on this thread raising, in the same respectful manner (unlike you), every concern about BASIS because it is in the interest of every kid in DC. You'll just have to deal with it and BASIS will just have to prove me wrong....when it opens and there is actual data to prove its success.[/quote]

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