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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Check out the faculty profiles. Lots of PhD and MS folks. Also plenty of folks who have experience with the DC student population

https://www.basisdc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=120&Itemid=395[/quote]

Note that they mention teaching experience but not how much.  Could be just a year or even just student teaching.[/quote]

What's your point?  I would note that other schools don't go into great detail on teaching staff experience either.  Do you know exactly how much experience each and every one of your child's teachers had?  I doubt most posters here do.  They could have had just a year or student teaching prior.   Or it could be 20 years.  No valid assumptions to be made with the information given.[/quote]

My point is that giving so much information about teachers without being specific about  teaching experience in some cases is potentially misleading.  It suggests to me that some teachers, though they've gone to good schools (all listed under each name), don't have much teaching experience.

Every teacher has to start somewhere, nothing wrong with that.  I'd think parents would be interested to know what percentage of BASIS teachers are teaching full time for the first time at BASIS, and what percentage are seasoned teachers.   Perhaps a parent could deduce that when length of time teaching is not mentioned, it means that the teacher has no or only student-teaching experience.

Of course, interested parents could easily request this information.   It's hard to imagine that BASIS would actively withhold it if asked directly for it.[/quote]

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