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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ha ha don't get me started about the ATF (aka parents paying teachers so BASIS can free up working capital to expand the bureaucracy or open new campuses). At least when I was there we had a fixed contract at the beginning of the year. The ATF was not a bonus and if you look at the thin information about it they never claim it is a bonus. I presume it was just used to pay the contractual salary (which did have lots of bonuses built in for things like attendance, student performance on APs, etc.).

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are you frigging kidding me?  I have a Q&A from the HOS that says different.........
contractual eh?  
[b]Not what we were told at all[/b]

including a statement that there was a "base" bonus for all returning teachers which I guess means your salary?
HELL NO.

In our ES our PTA money goes in part to insure that there is an assistant teacher in every room so that if one kid is disruptive they can be pulled out and talked to without ruining the entire class time............ and every penny appears in an itemized budget created by the administration with parental input, which is why I have never quibbled about handing over my money (although Janney had a 3 kid cap, and our ES does not.............)

[b]so would you have preferred a $100 gift card at Christmas and then at the beginning of the summer?[/b]

(from individual parents, dividing it so it adds up evenly per teacher and kid?  We fork over 1800 for one kid at ES, and we figure we owe Basis teachers a lot more, but we did not donate to the ATF last year because it sounded off)

Because if this is really what it is, the organization writ large has to step in and fulfill your contracts, including any obligatory bonus based on a stated formula, whether or not they have the money from the parents, which in DC they never will just because of our population........

Sorry about all these questions but you are absolutely blowing my mind and I will wait with bated breath for your response.  [b]No joke.[/b][/quote]

So are you really going to go on the word of an anonymous DCUM poster who may or may not be an actual teacher and make a judgement based on that alone? I know that it is a fact that DC charters get substantially less funding than DCPS schools. I want to help support our teachers and our school. I also know that no other school in DC will provide the great education that my kid is getting now at BASIS.[/quote]

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