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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like BASIS ain't so hot. [/quote]

I am not interested in this school because, as I posted earlier, I'm not interested in accelerated academics.  But sounds to me like there is one deranged mom there trying to torpedo the school[/quote]

Deranged is the right word to describe her. [/quote]

+100

I have to say I bit my tongue and didn't respond before, but those listserv posts were cringeworthy not just for the misguidedness mentioned above but they really jumped the shark with accusations of "racism" just because someone's kid didn't pass their comps.  I just hate it when people immediately throw around those kinds of knee-jerk reactions, particularly when it's total ignorance of the reality that lots of AA kids passed their comps on the first try, lots of FARMS kids did as well, lots of AA kids are on honor roll, lots of AA kids are thriving and succeeding and being put to the fore competing academically against other schools, for example Science Bowl - [b]not to mention the fact that the tests in question are electronically graded by a Scantron machine in Arizona that is incapable of knowing if a particular student is black, white, purple, whatever when it grades their tests.  That, and the suggestion that only AA kids get disciplined when other parents know for a fact that's dead wrong.  It really undermines all the hard work going on in civil rights when people immediately go straight to those kinds of specious accusations of racism and lean on it like a crutch any time anything isn't going their way.  [/quote][/b]

BTW, the "deranged mother" everyone is referring to has not posted once on this thread, I asked.

Airing BASIS dirty laundry when it is not necessary does not help the school.............

were you not on the list serve when a mother posted about the neutral scantron machine not working, about insisting to see her child's comp retakes, and  about how they were incorrectly marked and the child was incorrectly retained until she herself corrected/insisted they acknowledge their own error?

You will talk about parents crying "racism" until the cows come home, but BASIS according to the BOOSTERS acknowledged this incident, promoted the child, and "rechecked" every comp retake to insure this was not a widespread error.  Not racism. Inaccuracy that almost resulted in a child repeating a year of school when by BASIS standards they did not have to.......[/quote]

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