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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is BASIS DC's dirty little secret. They don't pay or offer good enough working conditions to attract and retain qualified teachers across the board, particularly at the middle school level. They burn teachers out - all those after-school office hours.  It's particularly hard for BASIS to find teachers with experience teaching both ms and serious STEM subjects (full years of physics, chem, bio not normally taught at the ms level). What often happens is that they often hire either hs STEM teachers who don't last long teaching sciences at the ms level or hire ms teachers with weak subject backgrounds. This is why parents have started pushing for better teacher pay and started lobbying for hiring input. A group of at least 90 concerned parents formed and organized during SY 2022-2023. They send a group to each BASIS board meeting.[/quote]

A lot of those parents are high school parents. If I were in the middle school right now, I'd try to get as many middle school parents involved in that effort, so it doesn't go out the door when the high school cohort graduates. I'm sure the BASIS board can't wait until those families leave and they can go back to business as usual.[/quote]

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