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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do realize that if “a dozen” BASIS students are admitted into top schools that’s roughly 30% of the graduating class, right?! Don’t compare the number of students going to top colleges, but rather the percentage of the graduating class…In any event, [b]BASIS is supposedly looking to revamp is college counseling process,[/b] recognizing the extreme competitiveness for top college admissions these days.  [/quote]

What BASIS needs to [i]revamp [/i]is the pay and working conditions for top teachers.

[b]As a HS family, you get fed up with some of the best teachers leaving for better pay at Walls and JR [/b]and better working conditions (training, facilities, hours) in the burbs.

We're not happy that a star math teacher left for Walls in the spring.

They can revamp the college counseling process all they want without fixing high teacher turnover.  I don't know what the solution is knowing that charters don't get the same per student allocations as DCPS. Arizona needs to fundraise more for the DC campus.

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You have every right to be upset when teachers leave, but not the right to employ hyperbole and to just make things up. This has been covered elsewhere on DCUM. There has not been an exodus of teachers leaving for JR and Walls. One person does not an exodus make. Do better.
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The hyperbole is yours to own. BASIS loses much more than one good HS teacher over poor pay every summer.  You cover what you want on DCUM; let others cover what they want. Revamping college admissions to improve outcomes will be yet another exercise in papering over the cracks, bandaid treatment, whitewashing.  If you have a kid in the HS above 9th grade, you know this as well as I do.

We're waiting for fi aid offers from privates, hoping that we won't be back to BASIS for 11th grade. We're not alone.[/quote]

Can't help but notice you can't name the huge number of teachers who departed BASIS for Walls and JR, as you said in your original post. You think we didn't notice you morphed from that specific assertion to a broader indictment related to money? [/quote]

New poster. You're twisting posts. Nobody on this thread has argued that BASIS teachers only leave for better pay at Walls + JR. PPs mention teachers leaving for better working conditions, facilities and pay at a variety of schools, which is factually correct.

BASIS doesn't pay well relative to many other DC Metro area schools and doesn't seem to put much into supporting its teachers (via training). The facilities at BASIS obviously aren't good.

In short, too many BASIS teachers leave for better JOBS. This is a valid criticism and a real concern.

I'm going to argue that parents put up with chronically high teacher turnover at BASIS relative to top privates and public schools in VA and MD because their DC public HS options just aren't great. Slam me now. [/quote]

Couple things:

1. Private schools pay squadoosh. Shocking you don't know that. People don't work at privates for money. DCPS pays more than every elite private in DC.
2. You are comparing BASIS to private schools and those not in DC. Do you not see how odd that is?
3. The person to whom I responded stated outright that BASIS was losing lots of teachers to Walls and JR. I called BS because that is not true. Teacher retention is bad everywhere. It is surely an issue at BASIS as it is everywhere. What I object to is people making sh*t up. 
4. Every person who leaves a job does so for a better job. That's true at BASIS, every other school in DC and every job everywhere in any field. Why do you think that's some revolutionary insight?  [/quote]

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