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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, let's change the narrative. My BASIS student earned straight As for 5 years but we left anyway, fed up with [b]teacher "experts" without scant background in the subjects they teach[/b] due. We also hit the wall with poor leadership, very limited elective and HS EC choices, the bad building, and the seriously stressful high school curriculum featuring few choices (10th grade, AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Physics, AP Cal, want something different, shut up).

If you can afford better or are willing to move to Upper NW or the burbs, you get out of BASIS. Last year, a large parent pressure group formed to monitor board meetings and push for change. The group seems to be getting some results but their campaign has been little too late for us.[/quote]

Good point. I mean, we all know that DCPS is teeming with science teachers who gave up careers at NASA and former AU professors who left their dig sites in Egypt to teach history. And PhDs in Chemistry from JHU.

FFS, what does the bolded mean? [/quote]

“Subject Expert Teacher” is Basis jargon. The PP is mocking the term. [/quote]

I would rather have a chemistry teacher with 10 years of experience teaching middle/high school chemistry than one with a PhD and 20 years of non-teaching work experience. No question.[/quote]

Don’t send your kid to basis then because that is what they value in hiring teachers-  PhD, not actual experience.  I’ve known some basis teachers that had a rough time actually teaching outside of the basis model.[/quote]

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