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The general point you seem to be making is don't criticize BASIS in a way that you find unhelpful. That doesn't seem reasonable to expect on a discussion forum about charter schools. Unhappy parents want to vent. And don't forget of course the yang in BASIS boosters. If you are really happy about your school, why hang out of internet fora defending it?

As a teacher the fact of the matter is that I saw many many students leave (almost 15% of one 9th grade class) but for each student that leaves many more struggle on for whatever reason. Leaving a school is a difficult choice for many parents and kids, there are limited options, there are many pros about BASIS, tough to leave friends, etc. Some parents even forced their kids to remain. It happens. In short, I personally was very distressed as an educator and human being seeing the damage inflicted on more than a few students by the BASIS program. No hyperbole, not even pointing fingers since the faculty and admin at my school by and large were excellent. [b]Just the simple fact that a sizable number of kids are not able to thrive, and in fact barely could survive the BASIS curriculum. That is what I saw. That is why I left.[/b]

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In terms of being able to survive the curriculum, if you are teaching here at a "normal" school - not the JKLM Deal Wilson, you can see how woefully unprepared the vast majority of our kids are for a BASIS type education.

In DC, in 3 years, almost 80 students have been retained (not promoted to the next grade).  Their parenst and/or the kids think they are doing the right thing.  It seems like you would disagree.

And then of course, there was that one mom this year who found out her child's comp retake had been misgraded, and that child got to move up but we weren't told about it until the parent piped up on the list serve.

The good news is at the meeting Mr. Aiken said they are thinking about offering a summer school option for kids who failed, in addition to the STARS program.  Because in DC, some of the parents cannot help their kids academically.  Heck, how many parents speak Chinese at Basis?  Not many.

So they are thinking about trying to help the kids who struggled all year, but went to teacher hours, did everything they could, and still failed, over the summer.  That would be a big improvement from a bunch of us parents watching our kids struggle and not being able to help them, while the Honors student who offered to help us worked so hard........[/quote]

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