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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, just curious.  Not at Basis but enjoying the circus show here on DCUM.

Does everyone at BASIS know who the OP whack job is?  Is it a man or a woman?  American, or non native speaker?

What's their true beef?  Are they obnoxious like this over everything, or just BASIS?  (like, are they a normal-ish person you could chat with before or after school until suddenly you realize they're actually crazy and you back away?)   Does every other parent there know OP by sight/name?

My kid's school has one crazy parent who occasionally would post things that were always in lower case with lots of ellipsis, and only semi-complete sentences.  Tried to be somewhat mystic about it.  Actually I think his kid has moved onto middle school now.  But everyone kinda knew and mostly just ignored, except one or two flare ups.  I think he was self aware enough to realize he wasn't everyone's cup of tea and so he restrained himself.  This person at BASIS seems completely un-self-aware, and incapable of lightening up even a smidge.  Since i don't have to deal with him/her, just wondering how a person gets to be this way.    [/quote]

I think they all [b]think[/b] they know who they think the whack job is here, and I [b]know[/b] they are wrong.

She did write three long posts to our list serve, which were fairly coherent, but she is not the best writer in the world. Conciseness and clarity are her strong points. But we are all adults and after the first one I see no reason for any parent not to have "just ignored," as you say. And she signed her name. And irony of all ironies?  She stays away from DCUM because "there is too much drama" and does not post here at all, or read the posts.  I am not going to tell her about these ones because I think it would profoundly upset her and she doesn't deserve it.

She did ask the moderator whether she was the reason the list serve was shut down, and was told that they had been thinking about doing it probably since last summer, and that her posts were not a factor at all.  The earlier posts about all the stuff going on in San Antonio, the accusations that Basis is racist, those posts were far more offensive than her three long winded essays which did contain 3 mentions of a face book page, and in my opinion those earlier posts might have played a part.  Not hers.  But she [b]was[/b] in her last post trying to get the HOS to get out in front of the whole candy issue, and she did request that he and the Dean go in and apologize. So I can kind of understand the confusion, but not the cruelty of the people who are posting here.  And they finally went in, but they did not apologize.

But the thing that upsets me about all of this is she is not a Basis basher - I hear her try to recruit parents for Basis a lot at our ES, and at cocktail parties, and she is coherent, concise, and very proud that her kids go to Basis, and wants more kids from our ES to come.  Her kids were respected at our ES and were academically very advanced, and most people knew it.  She is also good at explaining what types of kids would succeed at Basis and what types of kids are not likely to.  Last Friday I participated in a conversation with her and another mom where she reluctantly concluded that a child who is really focused on art and drama who is not into math or science probably would not like Basis.

Bottom line?  Nothing crazy about her.  Silly for people to get upset over three long emails to the list serve.  Unfair and inaccurate to blame her for being responsible for the shutting it down.  And unfair to have assumed that she was posting on the candy thread or here.  So next time you see her, try to treat her with a little respect.  As another poster said, she had some valid points.  She just did not present them in the right way.  And she always concluded (but I'm not sure most of us who are not her friends ever got to her conclusions) by saying that she believed in Basis.

So I guess the short answer is there are either many whackadoo Basis parents, or people posing as them.  But here, you never know who is doing what.  Just felt I needed to defend her.  Saw the same thing happen on the other thread, but thought people would figure it out for themselves.

Now of course I may be wrong and all of you may be talking about some other crazy lady instead of my friend, but she did not "flood inboxes" with numerous emails, she sent three.  And while they were poorly written, they did not have ellipses or appear mysterious or crazy.  And they made some good points.  So whack away at these whackadoos all you want, but please do not assume that the same person who wrote the emails has [b]ever[/b] written anything on DCUM.
And don't start attacking me about this either.  Just trying to clear something up because it is getting out of hand.  All Basis parents know who the email person is, they know her kids and her husband, and none of them are crazy.  End of subject.  Entertain yourselves all you want, but what you are saying verges on slander and you are totally off base.[/quote]

The length of your post strongly suggests that you are HER[/quote]

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