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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I don’t know why you are being so weird about this topic.  New poster and current BASIS family, and the Head of School has said himself in town halls this year that teacher retention is a major issue the school is working on, that they are trying to reduce the number of top teachers who leave every year.  The school is aiming to get the percentage of top performing teachers who leave each year below 10% as part of their 5 year plan - meaning that more than 10% leave now (and probably substantially more if they think they need 5 years to meet this goal).  [/quote]

Teacher turnover is a problem everywhere. The only way teachers can get jobs at JR and Walls is if teachers have left those schools in the first place. [/quote]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Don't bring "logic" and "reason" into the discussion. Let these people with their axe to grind believe their made up facts about teachers fleeing BASIS en masse to go to Walls and JR without having to think for even a moment about why those alleged openings were there.  [/quote]

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