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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Like droves of parents EotP, we felt a little desperate for an acceptable public MS. The reality is that we (collective we) have somewhat better HS options in the public system. We can swing parochial HS for 4 years if necessary (but couldn't have paid tuition from 5th or 6th on up). Our kid might crack Walls and will probably be admitted to Banneker. We might even rent IB for JR in a pinch.

For the e-record, grateful as I am to have had BASIS for MS, given a choice, [b]I'll take a better-rounded, healthier and happier option.[/b] I want less rushing around as a family to seek out serious sports and music. I want nothing more to do with the intransigent HoS.

I'm hoping that my kid can take classes at [b]Walls with excellent former BASIS teachers who bailed to DCPS[/b]. [/quote]

What does that mean? If you had unlimited money and/or didn't live in DC you'd choose something else? That's the part about the BASIS animosity I cannot comprehend. The question for parents in DC is not whether Sidwell is a better than public options (it is!) or whether there are better schools outside of DC (there are!), the question is what is the best available option at any grade. For many families that is BASIS. Does not mean that BASIS is perfect or that there are not things people would change given additional resources. (e.g. obviously the building)

Something else just occurred to me. If there are SOOOOO many BASIS teachers who bailed for Walls (unconfirmed as those reports may be), why were those jobs open in the first place? Wouldn't that mean that teachers left Walls in order to open up those slots? What's wrong at Walls that caused all those teachers to leave!!!! (Kidding, it's a bogus argument in both cases.)[/quote]

PP is pretty off base about teachers at Walls. One teacher left Walls last year, was replaced by the only former Basis teacher at Walls.  As for the teacher being excellent I can’t speak to that. But Walls does not have much teacher turnover.[/quote]

I'm the poster above who was wondering how there were so many open slots at Walls for BASIS teachers to move into. It didn't make any sense to me. You're saying there is only one former BASIS teacher at Walls. But this forum is rife with posts about all the teachers who left BASIS for Walls last year. Is this another situation where people with an ax to grind just make things up and/or repeat what their friends told them?

What say you DCUM folks who have been posting about all the BASIS teachers who left for Walls because they hate the HoS? Can you name more than one? Or are you all full of it? [/quote]

I know a lot of Basis HS teachers left last year.  One came to Walls. That’s the only one at Walls. These are facts.[/quote]

I have no doubt you are correct that it is one teacher. I would love a psychologist to conduct a study on BASIS Derangement Syndrome. Someone makes up some garbage about teachers leaving BASIS en mass for Walls and it becomes a fact through repetition. Here's a sampling from the last page of this thread alone:

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[i]I'm hoping that my kid can take classes at Walls with excellent former BASIS teachers who bailed to DCPS.[/i]
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[i]As has been pointed out, too many good teachers run off for for better pay etc., particularly to Walls.[/i]

Do you think they realize they are basically election deniers in different shoes?[/quote]

Yup.  The Basis haters just make stuff up.

How pathetic is your life that you feel compelled do that on DCUM.[/quote]

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