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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not "a million" nor etched into stone.  They can add students, they can make it up next year, et cetera, et cetera.

And, just to point out....

They know what their numbers are, they know what their financials are, they know what their model is.  They've been doing this for 20 years, they've successfully started and run at least a half dozen schools, I believe that's far more than anyone here on this thread ever has or ever will, I tend to think they know a thing or two more about how all of this works than any of us here does.  This is what they do.  And accordingly, if they aren't concerned, then neither am I.

But of course, if anyone here is so brilliant and has such deeper insights into how schools can and should be run, then I wonder why that person isn't out there starting and running an even better school than BASIS.  Submit a charter document to the PCSB.[/quote]

They cannot make up for those students, because we do not accept students after 6th.

If you want to take a cold hard look at the financials for every charter school, go ahead.

Guess what?  Basis hasn't offered any.  I kid you not.  Look at the Charter records for all the schools in 2013.  Basis DC has so little.  Good luck after Options and Amos expanding at all if you continue to refuse to open your books[/quote]

1.) I don't think anyone on this message board knows for a fact that there are currently 25 open slots.  At this point for all we know, it could be 24 slots. Could be 1 slot, could be 0 slots and back to a wait list.  We've gone 11 pages now on speculation.  Not useful or helpful.

2.) If there are open slots, the revenue is [i]not[/i] gone for every year from 6th through 12th.  They don't backfill upper grades even with attrition - that's not their model, I think their charter factors that in as well.  They will plan and adjust within the charter scope to replenish their overall target numbers via 5th and 6th graders next year, just as they do with all of their other schools, and just as they have done for years.

3.) As for financials, bear in mind, the same goes for virtually any other school in DC - none of them are particularly transparent.  Even the DCPS school budget sheets don't tell the whole story, they leave a lot of things out.  If you want complete transparency, great - lobby council for a bill that would mandate complete financial transparency for all DC schools, that's what should really happen, and that's something I would get behind as well.

And again, where there's frustration, then why not make an appointment with school officials to discuss concerns?  Does anyone really think that all this back and forth and navelgazing with some random group of strangers on an anonymous message board (none of which have any answers, and some of which are only here to troll) is really an appropriate or useful way to approach any of this?  The last 11 pages and all of the previous threads should make it pretty clear that DCUM is not a particularly good venue for getting accurate or authoritative information or for resolving frustrations. [/quote]

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