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[quote=Anonymous]Seems to me there are a couple of new ones conveying new information - but then I read every BASIS DC thread thoroughly to try to defend the school - and here I find I am having trouble because it is not the usual just they push you out for no reason because you are the wrong color - it is retaliation.  And it seems real.  And I know the cheating is unfortunately real as well, and it is embarrassing to me.

I am one of the people who talked to Kathleen Reynolds fairly early on last year about cheating, but not the OP here. I think there are a fair number of us disturbed by it.  Just because it happens elsewhere does not mean it is ok at BASIS. They could do something about this.  So they caught some kids early in the year last year.  What did they do? It just seems crazy to me that since the method of cheating is so clear they are deciding not to prevent it.  [b]Confiscate the phones for the precomps, comps, end of trimester tests and finals - we do it for the AP exams - as our own AP testing center - why can't we do it at other times?  Do we really want it to trickle down?[/b]

Cheating may be everywhere, that does not mean it should be accepted at our school.  I went to private school, and did not know a single cheater.  Certainly plagiarism would have been more of a risk than anything else.  I went to a college with a single sanction honor code - you cheat, you are expelled, and people took it pretty seriously for that reason (at least the people I knew). More harshly, you see someone cheat, and don't report it, you can be expelled for that as well.  Thank God I never had to make that choice.

I think the minute you start talking about high stakes testing - precomps and comps, where promotion is at stake, so 6th grade, cheating should not be worth the risk.  In my kid's class they took it knowing they would never be caught.  But how much easier would it be if these kids (and I am seriously talking about the top of the class) never cheated in the first place?  Fortunately many of the ones I am talking about left for high school - and don't assume this is the 9th grade either.  But I know it has trickled down that far at least.

I do think the fact that kids who have the option of Deal are choosing BASIS over Deal is fantastic - a few years ago these were mythical creatures.  No one believed they existed.  Why would anyone choose BASIS over Deal?  But we now have proof positive on this thread that they do.  So instead of being so crappy to them, why don't you be nice to them for the time that they are at BASIS.  I am pretty sure they are contributing to the intellectual environment of the MS.  This is not love it or leave it.  You can love it for MS and leave it for HS - attrition is 40%.  So please stop crapping all over the people who choose to leave, and celebrate the fact that we finally have proof that there are Deal kids who are not posting just to figure out whether they should transfer before they fail their comps.

I also think the fact that there are 5 9th graders zoned for Wilson speaks volumes in favor of BASIS. I just hope the new HOS realizes that he has to sell them every year, keep them every year - if he cares.  But having Wilson as an option and being risk averse might change your perspective if your perspective about the risks at BASIS DC change.  And yes, I would agree that among the 10th and 11th graders, probably none are zoned for Wilson.  I do not believe this crap that we need white kids to make people wake up about where we are sending people to college.  We just need kids to go to good colleges.

So find a middle ground here guys - I believe almost everyone who has posted on this thread deserves to be treated with respect, and unlike other threads, I am pretty sure most of us are BASIS parents.  So instead of blowing each other off, talking about men never walking on the moon, let's listen to each other.  Let's try either to have this thread die or go out on a better tone than the two previous posters set.  It is again, BOOSTERS blow off every. single. negative. thing.  Stop. No one can respect parents with blinders on.[/quote]

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