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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The current HoS at BASIS just announced that he is leaving at the end of this school year to lead a different BASIS school and the current Director of Student Affairs will be replacing him as HoS next school year.  This is how you know who actually attends BASIS or is genuinely interested in the school and who is just trolling…[/quote]
If you want to have private discussions about BASIS, please do it on internal school list servs used by parents of students currently enrolled, not here. Not your role to determine who's "genuinely interested" in the school on DCUM. Hint: BASIS has a variety of stakeholders and is supported by taxpayers' dollars. The departure of the current HoS sounds good to me. I dealt with him briefly as a volunteer senior project sponsor and wasn't impressed. He came off as a real know-it-all who doesn't seem to have kept up with the times in college admissions, at least not in admissions to my IvyPlus alma mater and grad school.[/quote]

No! Please keep the DCUM conversation. I have a 4th grader and have to decide in the next two months whether or not to add BASIS to the list, and this is all very valuable.

The new HoS thing -- could this actually mean a better experience for middle schoolers? Might they actually have recess? [/quote]

Keep the conversation going by all means, but comments are open to anybody, not just BASIS parents who love the school.

I doubt that the changing the HoS will altern the experience meaningfully for middle schoolers.  That hasn't been the case in the past because it's a national franchise, AZ calls the shots and the bad building isn't going anywhere.  The HoS can only tweak things in the margins, particularly for the high school students.

Incidentally, my eldest scored high on AP Chinese in 8th grade (taken at a different school).  But we still couldn't get out of studying a beginning language at BASIS (despite zero interest on kid's part) due to the HoS, not Arizona. We left.[/quote]

Sounds about right. IMHO, HoS is pompous and a controlling jerk without being all that organized. Things are probably looking up. [/quote]

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