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Whoah.  Lots of false premises there, let's pull it back a bit and start with the first piece before even launching into the rest.

If you want to talk about evidence, then were is the evidence that BASIS teachers have no experience?  And along the same vein, no  evidence has been presented relative to the experience of teachers at any other school in the District.   This whole discussion is based purely on assumptions, and you launched right into a whole set of new assumptions about student performance without even validating the initial assumptions of whether or not they are in fact inexperienced.

And, it seems to me that they aren't "downplaying" anything - what they put out there regarding their faculty's background is as much or more than most schools in the District do.[/quote]

There is evidence that some BASIS teachers have experience, because their years of experience is listed on the website and is presumably accurate and checkable.  However, some of the teachers  have no mention of teaching experience  and some teachers have mention of teaching, but no mention of how many years, suggesting that it was short term, part-time or perhaps student teaching.

While many schools have posted much less information about their teachers, it seems that BASIS is making a point of publicizing the quality of its teaching staff -- except when it comes to their actual teaching experience.  It looks like  they are playing up teachers' academic background while playing down their teaching experience.  Why not provide consistent information for each faculty member?

As mentioned earlier, any parent who wanted to ask a direct question about this could (or should) get a direct answer about how much teaching experience each teacher has. [/quote]

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