Reply to BASIS School DC

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "BASIS School DC"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Second year parent - we are not that happy and will be looking elsewhere. Virtually no project -don't understand how they can be a science school with no science projects. Math instruction very formula based. A few good teachers, a few mediocre ones and a few bad ones. Positives - lots of homework, small school[/quote]

The reason that we were grateful for no "cooperative" science projects early on was that every time our kid had one, or every other, the other kid bailed and she was left holding the bag and sometimes it hurt her grade.  You can't really get very creative with Saxon math, and you either love it or you hate it.  But I don't see the lack of group science or any other subject projects in the early years as a bad thing at all, and it certainly reduces the risks of arbitrary grading................

If you have bad teachers, I encourage you to try to send an email to that lady who has a facebook page - she has been taking reports on bad teachers and sending them up the line since the beginning of the year - since they fire them at the end of the year anyway, why should our kids lose a year to their bad instruction or lack of classroom management skills?  Say what you want about her, she has a fairly good rapport with some of the more powerful people in the administration - not just Sean Aiken, but Carolyn McGarvey, and Kate Gottfredson, so even if you plan to leave do the kids who plan to stay a favor and let someone know who the bad teachers are and why they are bad.......

Thanks.  Oh, and if you are in 6th, please tell them you are leaving right at the end of the year so they can better manage the waitlist....

I'm sorry BASIS has not been that great an experience for you or  your child, but please help those of us who are staying make it a better place......[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics