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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many folks have talked about how teachers should make more money and athletes and movie stars and the like less money.

That's true.

But now that a lifelong educator has come up with a curriculum that's said to be among the world's best, and proves it with student results year after year, is making money from a school network that's educating tens of thousands of children -- he shouldn't make a few hundred thousand dollars?

Why in the world not?

Better him than any number of folks in any number of industries! I wish there were more people like the Blocks, not less!

At least we who send our kids to BASIS schools are getting something for the money we're paying!

-SP (child applying to McLean next year)[/quote]

Do all Basis students know how much the founders make?  Is there indoctrination class?  Who is SP?[/quote]

SP-----I don't think the issue is how much the teachers are paid. The criticism, at least from what I understand, is the huge disparity between what BASIS founders are raking in, including the CEO and top level admin, and the teachers. The rapid and chaotic expansion, opening new schools every year before current schools have had time to mature, also seems to be profit driven. And since the rapid growth also means that personelle, admin and teachers, move from school to school, this has a negative impact on teacher retention and provides for a chaotic staffing situation at the schools, with teachers and administrators constantly cycling in and out, to the extent hat during the course of a single semester, teachers and administrators will change.[/quote]

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