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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the PP is "not a Basis parent" then they might want to at least read up on how BASIS has been operating for the last 20 years, rather than jumping on the bandwagon of completely wrong assumptions about how they accommodate for things like not meeting the number of slots or having students leave, let alone leaping to "fiscal malpractice."

If their model were truly such a broken system that would allow compounding fiscal disaster as the PP asserts, they wouldn't have had the financial wherewithal to survive 20 years, let alone open all of the  successful schools that they have.  They have far more experience than any of us in dealing with these issues and know far more about how to run a successful school than any of us here do.  [/quote]

Must agree with a previous poster, participating to this thread at this point is for losers (and I include myself, but what the heck I have an afternoon to waste). Nothing meaningful can be added to this discussion and it has become a vehicle for stupid claims and vitriol. [/quote]

I was not trying to sock puppet, just repeat NP's post again.

Go ahead, ask at the coffee hour whether a Basis school in its 3rd year has EVER left 250K on the table, and how they are going to prevent it in the future.  And if you are really interested, ask whether that has ever happened at another of their schools in its 3rd year. Just don't be dumb enough to ask whether they can recover that money or find some financial way to compensate for the mistake they made this year because the simple answer is they cannot.

DC is not Arizona.  We are not "take it or leave it," because many come to Basis having no intention of keeping their kids there after MS.  So if they want to keep us, they have to treat our kids well.  Failing at that miserably now, but that only accounts for the attrition in the upper grades not the failure to fill open slots in 6th.

If we are lucky, the boss of our HOS will provide some open and honest answers on Thursday, because he has yet to dismiss the question as a non-issue, and BOOSTER BABIES, you have a lot of people here telling you it is a big deal.  People who have no skin in the game.  Why don't you take the time to listen to them?  Because you are BOOSTERS...[/quote]

NP and BASIS parent -- I was planning on going to the coffee this week to ask about some academic issues, but I am starting to wonder if the coffee is going to be hijacked by the same person who keeps obsessing over the $$$. I don't care how they want to run the place financially -- I'm not an investor or board member. I am a consumer/customer and so far my DC has received an excellent education, much better than any of our other options. If BASIS DC is so poorly run that it will no longer be financially viable, then we will go somewhere else and be grateful for the time we had there, [/quote]

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