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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. [/b]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.[b][/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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[/b]There were more than 3 emails-a quick word search will tell you that-please drop it-[b]also, [b]the 25 slots WAS settled well before it was dropped-o[/b]. The Basis listserv, Jeff Jacobs listed something like[/b] 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. [b]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]

Since you are debating things that can be resolved by documentary evidence, I will do some searching of my own now that you have provoked me, and we can continue to fight about it.  Is that what you want?  You cannot make these assertions and then tell everyone to drop it.  A simple word search may reveal that people responded to those emails and they were repeated that way.  A simple word search will not reveal that everyone's poor inboxes were "flooded" by her "crazy emails."  On DCUM, unlike the list serve, no one is entitled to the last word, especially when their words are full of specious statements.  So you pick a fight and you are also still missing the point.  [b]Settled how?  By telling us we left 25 seats open in the 6th grade? [b] That was in the final newsletter on the issue.  The one on September 12th said "we have identified a few open spots in the 6th grade."  Arguing about whether "a few = 25" is pointless now, but making that argument is patently absurd.  Why get on a high horse when the evidence is there for all to see?  I have no idea who Jeff Jacobs is but I bet dollars to donuts the 6 dates he listed were dates when we got notice there were spaces, not how many.  Dead horse, thoroughly beaten, he is wrong if that was his assertion, whoever he is.  If you really care, go look it up yourself instead of relying on someone I have never heard of to list dates for you, unless he quoted the statements in the actual documents.  Did he?  Of course not.  Because no such statements were made 6 times and you did not read the original statements and then relied on someone else's very easily refuted assertion. And responsible parents like me did all they could upon hearing that there were ANY spaces, which means this kind of error has no quick fix in the fall whether it is "a few" or "25," once children are enrolled elsewhere.  More importantly [/b]Admitting that we have 25 open seats in 6th settles nothing, but gives rise to a very simple question:  how did it happen and what are we going to do to prevent it from happening this year?   And that question has not been answered yet by anyone in the administration.  We had a waiting list for 6th, over 40 kids at one point.  Somewhere after the lottery the waiting list was not managed correctly or 25 students who were on it would presently be in our 6th grade.  [b]That is what they budgeted for, that is how they allocated the teachers, which is probably why they could not just add on another section of 5th graders at the beginning of the year, which would have I think filled up quickly.  But these are all questions that logically flow from his statement.  And though the issue was brought up at the last coffee hour, it was brought up by your "crazy lady" as part of her "I am concerned about our school" speech which mostly had to do with treating students with the respect that they deserve, so that they will come, so that they will stay, so that they will not leave (citing the candy incident).  You may not remember, but she stood up twice.  She also separately brought up the issue of the difficulty some students and parents had gaining access to comps they needed to retake over the summer and the possibility of having a summer school along with the STARS and ANTERES programs, which Mr. Aiken said they were already seriously considering.  So your "whacking job" is raising issues on behalf of students who had problems over the summer, and proposing things the admin is already thinking about that I bet were not on YOUR radar screen or in your pretty little empty head. I would think carefully before you continue with your defamatory descriptions of her overall behavior or psychological state.  As another parent said, enough is enough with just going on and on about how crazy she is.  I see no evidence of her craziness in her behavior at the coffee hour or in her emails.  No one forced you fools to read them after all.  And obviously you didn't, the same way you didn't read the 6 notices which did not say 25 spots 6 times.  I didn't get a whiff of crazy in them.  I did, in the last one, get a strong sense of outrage about the way the students in 8La were treated by the Dean, and why the HOS and Dean had not gone in to apologize for [b]his crazy behavior[/b].  And again, when those two finally made an appearance in 8La, all they did was tell the kids their grades were not in danger.  [/b]No apology for the Dean screaming "you mess with her stuff, I'll mess with your grades" where his carrying ons made them late to their subsequent class and made them worried for the grades until the person who made the threat actually came into the class and the HOS retracted it.  No explanation that this would never happen at Basis.[b]  Maybe she was onto something both at the coffee hour and the craziness in 8La?  Maybe if you read her emails they were not mostly about her FB page, being a Luddite (I assume that means not computer savvy). All of you should shut up now and if the adults here want to discuss the shutting down of the list serve or anything else since we no longer have a list serve, let them.  But stop embarrassing yourselves by trying to humiliate this lady.  All you are doing is disgracing our school.  At least she had the decency to keep it on the list serve and not on DCUM.  So far I do not see you doing Basis the same courtesy.  And I feel an obligation now to go back, find Jacobs, check the statements, check the emails etc.  Because of your patently false assertions.  What a fucking waste of time.  But since this concerns someone about whom I care, I will fucking do it.  If you really wanted this dropped like the others who genuinely want this dropped you just would have just said "drop it."  Not the add ons about being sent 6 notices of 25 spaces or that there were more than three emails.  You want to have your cake and eat it too.  Guess what, not on DCUM.  So "drop it" with the unjustified little speech you saw fit to make by no means means drop it, 3rd crazy lady (at least )[/quote]

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