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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not just the silent lunch in a dark windowless lunch room.  It is the high stakes testing, cramped building, ever smaller number of peers and the sometimes poor teaching. There are some excellent teachers. [b]What sucks is when there are poor teachers who get fired or leave mid year [/b]the kids who are harmed by this do not get adequate support to catch up, and the high stakes tests don’t change. So it is a cumulative bummer.[/quote]

Disagree. Huge advantage of all charters vs DCPS is ability to dump bad teachers mid-year. At DCPS they'd be dead weight for years and years.  [/quote]

+1.  Plenty of good and bad teachers at DCPS schools like Walls and they can’t get rid of the bad ones.[/quote]

They could get rid of them.  But they don’t.[/quote]

The problem is BASIS gets rid of the good ones who realize they can have stability and better pay working for Fairfax Public.[/quote]

That makes no sense.[/quote]

Teachers can make more money, have easier jobs and job security if they work virtually anywhere else. They obviously aren't going to leave BASIS to go work in some garbage DCPS school, but if there's a nice gig in some cushy high-achieving suburban district, they're going to go. And they do. My friends' kids lost all their best teachers from BASIS and had to go on wild goose hunts in the burbs to track them down and try to get college references.

This isn't even a complaint about BASIS, it's just what happens when you don't have union teachers. You can attract some good ones, but you'll never be able to keep them in the long-run. The good ones, at least.[/quote]

OK, you don’t have any kids at BASIS.

I do and can only think of a couple of teachers that went to any schools in the burbs.

Your friends “lost all their best teachers”?

Nope.  That didn’t happen.[/quote]

I mean, it did. It was their high school teachers. If your kids have been in the HS at any point in the last four years, you'd know EXACTLY who I'm talking about. If you haven't... you've got some surprises coming your way—if your kid has a favorite teacher that might be helpful for recs, get their personal contact ASAP![/quote]

There was a pretty big exodus of teachers two years ago.  I can think of four off the top of my head who went to DCPS.[/quote]

I can think of around 4 from then but some went to private schools and one or two have returned to Basis.[/quote]

So then a bunch did leave because I can think of four who were in DCPS this year and last year.[/quote]

Sounds like turnover can happen. I mean, this isn't rocket science. Non-union jobs pay less and mean teachers can leave. Also means you can maybe get some better quality teachers, but it's tougher to hang onto. Why are we fighting about this? [/quote]

No one is fighting but people keep making false claims like basis teachers don’t go to DCPS only the suburbs and not many teachers leave.  These teachers did not just leave for better pay.  The ones I personally know left because they were unhappy with the school and leadership.[/quote]

I think we can all agree that BASIS has a lot of turnover, wherever they're going.[/quote]

No.  That is incorrect.  You are just another DCUM poster just making stuff up.  Maybe focus on fixing whatever school your child attends instead of spreading false information about BASIS.

Last year (SY 2023-24), teacher turnover in schools was 26% (as measured by teachers staying in the same school).

BASIS DC teacher retention is way higher than that.
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