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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It reads like "Don't worry, we'll make sure it's only a few more poors, and we'll make sure they're super desperate to be here!"

Imagine how different this letter would be if they actually wanted to do this. Of course, if they wanted to, they would have done it already.[/quote]

That's my takeaway as well. They are clear that "this new preference will impact our opening grade level seat size by less than 8% of total seat offers -- meaning a marginal impact to new families submitting applications." They never say the exact number of equitable access seats they will offer -- it could be in the single digits and this is more performative than anything else. Based on the 8% quoted in the email, it's probably around 12. [/quote]

If it is only 9 seats should they not do it all? Seems like if those 9 kids get a chance they otherwise wouldn't get then it makes a difference to those kids. In a thread filled with dumb takes yours may be the dumbest. Your objection is that they didn't tell you right now how many seats? And also you don't think the number of seats they didn't tell you they would offer is enough seats? The only thing performative here is people like you. [/quote]

Reading is fundamental -- perhaps you should have gone to a BASIS school or perhaps you are just overly emotional. In any case, I don't object - even if it is performative. I just don't see that 12 kids (or less or even a bit more) are going to ruin the BASIS education as is being said by others throughout this thread. [/quote]

If that's all it takes to ruin it, it wasn't very good.[/quote]

You spend a lot of time focusing on something you don't think is very good and didn't want anyway. You are like a kid who doesn't get picked to play on a team and spends the rest of his life claiming he hated baseball anyway and didn't care. To prove this you review the box scores and post commentary about the baseball team and how little you care. It's very strange.   [/quote]

There are multiple people posting on this thread, you know. It's not just me who thinks BASIS isn't very good.[/quote]

And...? Your point is? You don't have to think it is good. You don't have to send a kid there and you don't have to leave a kid there. I understand people who are pissed that they couldn't access something they wanted. People like you confound me. Why would you spend a single second on something you don't think is good or worthwhile? It doesn't make sense.[/quote]

Because I think a well-functioning school *system* is worthwhile and good, and I think BASIS is detrimental to the functioning of the system because of the many ways in which it coasts and shirks the harder work while claiming "results". [/quote]

Couple things:

(1) Putting a word in quotes to impute sarcasm doesn't made facts disappear. BASIS's results are empirically excellent. You can argue self selection and number of other things are at play, but its results are great. Related to that...

(2) That's some Prime A BS you are slinging there bro. If you cared about the "system" you wouldn't be focused exclusively on one of the few schools that gets results; you'd spend your energy on the systemic failures occurring throughout DCPS. Are you seriously arguing that BASIS is destabilizing all of DCPS? Nothing about what you post indicates a concern about the "system".

Your obsession makes no sense. You are very much that kid who spends all his time obsessing over something they pretend not to care about. [/quote]

1) Those are not actually quotation marks, and they are there for emphasis, not sarcasm.

2) What makes you think I'm focused exclusively on BASIS? There are lots of schools I'm eager to discuss-- any school that I feel is under-performing its demographics, shirking the harder work of the school system, or just generally not as good as people think. No, I do not think BASIS is destabilizing all of DCPS FFS. I think that BASIS is not actually that great, people go there for lack of better options, and that its "results" are not "empirically excellent" relative to demographics. I think that all schools should do a fair share of the more challenging work of a school system, and to allow some to shirk means that other schools have to do disproportionately more. And for BASIS to avoid the difficult parts and then claim to have better results is just in terrible taste. I'm not pretending not to care, I care very much about this.[/quote]

Well, no one really cares what you think, anonymous poster who has no connection to BASIS.

The fact is that BASIS has some of the best metrics and results of any public school in DC.  That is what counts. [/quote]

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