Anonymous wrote:Im a struggling Basis mom. My child may be retained in 8th grade and I know if I pull him out, he can go to 9th grade at a DCPS. He passed all classes but not the tests and now I’m wondering. I did the lottery just in case but our options are super slim and our neighborhood HS is horrible.

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Anonymous wrote:Silent lunches???

Is this a victorian era workhouse? WTF is going on there?

Group punishment. Terrible. Glum.

Found the parent/troll with the disruptive kid.

Silent lunch is just a mild individual punishment used by many schools in lieu of, say, detention.

This is not factual. The entire 7th grade was forced to have silent lunch at least a half a dozen times or more this year.

+1 if it were an individual punishment in lieu of detention I wouldn’t be opposed to it. But it was punishment for all kids and unfair to the well behaved kids.

Hmmm... it feels like when you turn your kids over to people who's primary focus is paying down some of the massive debt they've incurred in developing their for-profit school network they might not actually have your kid's best interest in mind.

oh please. my child's (good) dcps elementary did collective punishment all the time. it sucked. he lived through it. basis stops doing this after the first few years.

and then what do they do? reduce gruel rations? Extra shifts at the oars?

My kid's (good) DCPS elementary school once sent an email home saying they would tell kids to be quiet in the lunch room if kids didn't stop being so raucous in the lunchroom... but grinding kids down with repeated silent lunches seems counter-productive to a good education.

You have no kid at BASIS and believe what you read here from some aggrieved anonymous poster whose kid was disruptive and disciplined.

In fact, in our experience, BASIS is (remarkably) mostly free of the bullying, fights, and disruptions that plague other public middle schools and high schools in DC. We are certainly grateful for that.

+1. There are weekly brawls at JR, Deal, and Hardy and you are complaining about silent lunch? Wtf?

my kid was at hardy this year and there were no brawls, at all. and he was allowed to speak at lunchtime and never had to pick up trash.

lol, uh, no...

"the continuing fights (which are all posted on social media)..."

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/825/1132525.page

That post is from last year.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding the trolls people.

do you think the silent lunch stuff is a troll? people seem to be pretty clear it happened

The trolls are the people who are claiming it doesn’t happen. Email the school and ask. After parents complained last year, the school sent a defensive email justifying silent lunch as a time of “reflection.”

No. The trolls are the people exaggerating the prevalence of silent lunch and/or equating it to galley slavery or child abuse. These are people who don’t have kids at Basis or have disruptive kids at the school.

Normal parents at Basis aren’t even thinking about it.

My kids have spent years at Basis and never had a silent lunch. And if they had, they would have just read a book and moved on.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding the trolls people.

do you think the silent lunch stuff is a troll? people seem to be pretty clear it happened

The trolls are the people who are claiming it doesn’t happen. Email the school and ask. After parents complained last year, the school sent a defensive email justifying silent lunch as a time of “reflection.”

No. The trolls are the people exaggerating the prevalence of silent lunch and/or equating it to galley slavery or child abuse. These are people who don’t have kids at Basis or have disruptive kids at the school.

Normal parents at Basis aren’t even thinking about it.

My kids have spent years at Basis and never had a silent lunch. And if they had, they would have just read a book and moved on.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding the trolls people.

do you think the silent lunch stuff is a troll? people seem to be pretty clear it happened

The trolls are the people who are claiming it doesn’t happen. Email the school and ask. After parents complained last year, the school sent a defensive email justifying silent lunch as a time of “reflection.”

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Anonymous wrote:Stop feeding the trolls people.

do you think the silent lunch stuff is a troll? people seem to be pretty clear it happened

Anonymous wrote:Our child experienced silent lunch for themselves once or maybe twice the entire school year at BASIS as a result of something they did. I’m fine with it!

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Anonymous wrote:Silent lunches???

Is this a victorian era workhouse? WTF is going on there?

Group punishment. Terrible. Glum.

Found the parent/troll with the disruptive kid.

Silent lunch is just a mild individual punishment used by many schools in lieu of, say, detention.

This is not factual. The entire 7th grade was forced to have silent lunch at least a half a dozen times or more this year.

The entire 6th grade too. Repeatedly.

What could they possibly have done to deserve this? I thought BASIS was supposed to be good kids.

They were acting out. Silent lunch is a time for them to reflect and improve their actions.

acting out how?

Being loud and annoying, and getting out of their seats unnecessarily. Lunchtime is for eating lunch, and talking with each other in a civilized manner.

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Anonymous wrote:Silent lunches???

Is this a victorian era workhouse? WTF is going on there?

Group punishment. Terrible. Glum.

Found the parent/troll with the disruptive kid.

Silent lunch is just a mild individual punishment used by many schools in lieu of, say, detention.

This is not factual. The entire 7th grade was forced to have silent lunch at least a half a dozen times or more this year.

+1 if it were an individual punishment in lieu of detention I wouldn’t be opposed to it. But it was punishment for all kids and unfair to the well behaved kids.

Hmmm... it feels like when you turn your kids over to people who's primary focus is paying down some of the massive debt they've incurred in developing their for-profit school network they might not actually have your kid's best interest in mind.

oh please. my child's (good) dcps elementary did collective punishment all the time. it sucked. he lived through it. basis stops doing this after the first few years.

and then what do they do? reduce gruel rations? Extra shifts at the oars?

My kid's (good) DCPS elementary school once sent an email home saying they would tell kids to be quiet in the lunch room if kids didn't stop being so raucous in the lunchroom... but grinding kids down with repeated silent lunches seems counter-productive to a good education.

You have no kid at BASIS and believe what you read here from some aggrieved anonymous poster whose kid was disruptive and disciplined.

In fact, in our experience, BASIS is (remarkably) mostly free of the bullying, fights, and disruptions that plague other public middle schools and high schools in DC. We are certainly grateful for that.

+1. There are weekly brawls at JR, Deal, and Hardy and you are complaining about silent lunch? Wtf?

my kid was at hardy this year and there were no brawls, at all. and he was allowed to speak at lunchtime and never had to pick up trash.

lol, uh, no...

"the continuing fights (which are all posted on social media)..."

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/825/1132525.page