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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BASIS needs no selling because the parents of hundreds of Ward 5 and 6 public school 4th graders are desperate for a public MS offering good discipline and academic rigor.  They're happy to put up with the bad building, weak electives, and a slew of green admins and teachers.
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Can you imagine carrying around this much animosity for a former employer? Poor dude (guessing) is so disgruntled that he spends his time following threads and chiming in aggressively on a school that he hasn't worked at in a number of years. I honestly feel pity for him.   [/quote]

I posted above. I'm not a former employee. I'm a current parent who won't be returning in the fall. I'm tired of dealing with admins and teachers who aren't very good at their jobs in a building that isn't healthy for the kids. I don't post on DCUM much. You guys need a life.  BASIS is just OK a nd you know it.[/quote]

Information now gleaned from your posts:

* Basis was a bad fit for your kid - That's fine. Not every school is a great fit for every kid. 
* Basis's admins were unreceptive to your suggestions for improvements - That's ok too. You had a right to make requests and demands. And they had a right to refuse your requests and demands. The fact that they are young doesn't mean they were wrong; that seems a very odd thing for you to fixate on. It also isn't clear why you would have been surprised that they refused your suggestions. In my experience Basis is open and vocal that they don't want to hear how you'd change things. They actually tell you that during open houses!
* You are tired of "dealing with a building that isn't healthy for kids" - This one feels like sour grapes. Did you not know what the building looked like when you enrolled? This feels like bootstrapping the fact that it wasn't a good fit for your kid, but instead of just acknowledging that moving on you are leaning into other things.

Your repeated griping about the youth of the admins or that they were "not good at their jobs" doesn't provide any useful information. By all objective measures (academic performance) they are excelling. If you are willing to share why it wasn't a good fit for your kid that might actually be helpful to other families considering Basis. Otherwise what we know from you so far is that the admins are young, you don't like the building and Basis was a bad fit for your kid.     [/quote]

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