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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Try again. My kids do not study Spanish and I was not involved in setting up the after-school lessons. My point is that one key difference between a good test prep program and a good school is a forum for parents and teachers to provide constructive input for the consumption of admins. BASIS DC was a better school (vs. a better AP prep program) under the previous open-minded head. You middle school parents don't get it.[/quote]

Who says your curriculum proposals or ideas for the use of school space constitute constructive input?[/quote]

That's part of what drives the animosity. It's universe of UMC parents who grew up being special and at every turn everyone wanted to hear what they had to say. They are experts in everything because of their degrees and big important jobs; ask them and they'll tell you this. The current HoS is very bad at making people feel heard. It is, I think, a legitimate area of development for him. He would be well served to learn how to make these people feel heard. He doesn't do that. He dismisses out of hand ideas he doesn't like and/or that are well beyond the resourcing to successfully implement. He doesn't tell the parents how smart and wonderful they before he does it and it hurts their fragile egos.  [/quote]

It's the universe of middle school parents who grew up attending, and sending their children to schools with active PTAs/PTOs before arriving at BASIS. Not just UMC parents, low SES parents, too. It can be v. difficult for American parents to accept that BASIS leaders aren't incentivized to be interested in their input, even if it could improve the program. That's the reality of a charter franchise that won't permit parent organizations who do more than raise funds for admins to allocate as they wish (at BASIS DC, to top up teachers' salaries).

Back to Oct waiting list data, the trend toward the BASIS WL growing year on year for almost a decade now is abundantly clear.

In view of this trend, the BASIS HoS just doesn't need to listen to parents, or even to pretend that he does.[/quote]

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