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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:D.C. charter board rejects request from BASIS to expand, Washington Post 4-16-13. It's too bad they're unable to expand but the truth is the truth the high withdrawal rate "raised concerns among board members about BASIS’s ability to serve all children". They're not here to serve all children and perhaps the board should close the school.

No, BASIS is not here to serve all children. Neither are a lot of other charter schools. The point of the charter movement is serve the needs of children whose needs are not being met by traditional schools, not to serve the needs of all children.

Incredible.....I hope you're not in education....Let me remind you charter schools recieve public funding with tax dollars from all families (with kids of all different needs). Logic follows that charters are expected to serve the needs of all children. Let me repeat that THE NEEDS OF ALL CHILDREN. One more time ALL CHILDREN. It's people like you who back in the day supported Plessy v. Ferguson. Pick up a history book and find out how it turned out for those like you.

Pp: you cannot possibly be arguing that public funds can't go to a school that meets the needs of every single child. Because that is obviously, demonstrably not true. Is Ellington meant to meet every child's needs? What about Prospect Learning Center? The school system as a whole is held to that standard ( not that DCPS fulfills the standard), not individual schools. It seems that the Charter Sector as a whole does a pretty good job of doing that.

And let's not forget that the charters are educating these children at a mere fraction of the cost, compared to what DCPS spends per student. What the system allocates per student to charters is far lower than what's in the system per student for DCPS.

Given how much the DC system holds back in terms of finances and support, the charters are doing a phenomenal job.

^^ THE NEEDS OF ALL CHILDREN

Remind me again how DCPS graduating kids who cannot read or write well enough to fill out a job application by themselves meets their needs?

Remind me again how DCPS meets the needs of all those kids who drop out? Oh, yeah, that's right, they don't meet those kids' needs.

Remind me again how DCPS is equipped to meet the needs of special needs students? Oh yeah, that's right - they farm them out at huge expense because they can't handle special needs.

Remind me again where DCPS is meeting the needs of gifted and talented children? Oh, yeah. That's right, they aren't meeting their needs, because they don't have G&T programs.

DCPS does not meet every child's needs, and neither does ANY school in DC.

Do not sit here and presume to point fingers and snipe about meeting needs, lest you expose your own PROFOUNDLY STAGGERING HYPOCRISY.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:D.C. charter board rejects request from BASIS to expand, Washington Post 4-16-13. It's too bad they're unable to expand but the truth is the truth the high withdrawal rate "raised concerns among board members about BASIS’s ability to serve all children". They're not here to serve all children and perhaps the board should close the school.

No, BASIS is not here to serve all children. Neither are a lot of other charter schools. The point of the charter movement is serve the needs of children whose needs are not being met by traditional schools, not to serve the needs of all children.

Incredible.....I hope you're not in education....Let me remind you charter schools recieve public funding with tax dollars from all families (with kids of all different needs). Logic follows that charters are expected to serve the needs of all children. Let me repeat that THE NEEDS OF ALL CHILDREN. One more time ALL CHILDREN. It's people like you who back in the day supported Plessy v. Ferguson. Pick up a history book and find out how it turned out for those like you.

Incredible. I hope you're not a logician.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:D.C. charter board rejects request from BASIS to expand, Washington Post 4-16-13. It's too bad they're unable to expand but the truth is the truth the high withdrawal rate "raised concerns among board members about BASIS’s ability to serve all children". They're not here to serve all children and perhaps the board should close the school.

No, BASIS is not here to serve all children. Neither are a lot of other charter schools. The point of the charter movement is serve the needs of children whose needs are not being met by traditional schools, not to serve the needs of all children.

Incredible.....I hope you're not in education....Let me remind you charter schools recieve public funding with tax dollars from all families (with kids of all different needs). Logic follows that charters are expected to serve the needs of all children. Let me repeat that THE NEEDS OF ALL CHILDREN. One more time ALL CHILDREN. It's people like you who back in the day supported Plessy v. Ferguson. Pick up a history book and find out how it turned out for those like you.

Are you saying that all of the charters in DC (and for that matter all of the public schools) in DC meet the needs of every school? What about Carlos Rosario, Mundo Verde, Yu Ying, St. Colletta's, William Doar PCS, Roots Charter School, etc.??? Do these schools meet the needs of every student in DC? What about all of the DC public schools that out source special education and have no gifted education offerings? This assertion that every school must meets the needs of every student is riduculous and clearly the board has already approved dozens of schools that do not meet the needs of every kid.

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Anonymous wrote:D.C. charter board rejects request from BASIS to expand, Washington Post 4-16-13. It's too bad they're unable to expand but the truth is the truth the high withdrawal rate "raised concerns among board members about BASIS’s ability to serve all children". They're not here to serve all children and perhaps the board should close the school.

No, BASIS is not here to serve all children. Neither are a lot of other charter schools. The point of the charter movement is serve the needs of children whose needs are not being met by traditional schools, not to serve the needs of all children.

Incredible.....I hope you're not in education....Let me remind you charter schools recieve public funding with tax dollars from all families (with kids of all different needs). Logic follows that charters are expected to serve the needs of all children. Let me repeat that THE NEEDS OF ALL CHILDREN. One more time ALL CHILDREN. It's people like you who back in the day supported Plessy v. Ferguson. Pick up a history book and find out how it turned out for those like you.

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Anonymous wrote:D.C. charter board rejects request from BASIS to expand, Washington Post 4-16-13. It's too bad they're unable to expand but the truth is the truth the high withdrawal rate "raised concerns among board members about BASIS’s ability to serve all children". They're not here to serve all children and perhaps the board should close the school.

No, BASIS is not here to serve all children. Neither are a lot of other charter schools. The point of the charter movement is serve the needs of children whose needs are not being met by traditional schools, not to serve the needs of all children.

What school in DC does meet the needs of all children? DCPS certainly doesn't, they have no G&T programs, they farm out special needs, they have atrocious dropout rates (far higher than BASIS attrition) and so on. How is that meeting the needs of all children? And the DCPS schools actually have a legal mandate to meet the needs of all children which they fail at, as opposed to charters, which by definition are intended to specialize (for example immersion).

Anonymous wrote:D.C. charter board rejects request from BASIS to expand, Washington Post 4-16-13. It's too bad they're unable to expand but the truth is the truth the high withdrawal rate "raised concerns among board members about BASIS’s ability to serve all children". They're not here to serve all children and perhaps the board should close the school.

No, BASIS is not here to serve all children. Neither are a lot of other charter schools. The point of the charter movement is serve the needs of children whose needs are not being met by traditional schools, not to serve the needs of all children.

D.C. charter board rejects request from BASIS to expand, Washington Post 4-16-13. It's too bad they're unable to expand but the truth is the truth the high withdrawal rate "raised concerns among board members about BASIS’s ability to serve all children". They're not here to serve all children and perhaps the board should close the school.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry we all believed in BASIS DC but its falling through and revealing it's true colors. I hate to say this and even believe it....yes these people are looking out for one race and it's white. Our blacks students are suffering at this place....and the chubby Head of School looks like he knows what he says but observe him well...he's fake. He's not there for our children. I hate to admit this but it's the truth. It's run like Gestapo force...

Is your child going to class on time, paying attention to the teacher and studying? If so, then meet with the head of the school and see if you can change the group. There are some really good teachers while others have no experience, or have taught only at the upper high school level. Have a positive attitude and things will get better.

My white kid has LOVED going to BASIS. She likes the new friends she has made bast. And those friends are of ethnicities. We've had sleepovers with Black and Italians one night, and then a few weeks later we have Persian and White kids at our house. The school is very diverse in a way that much of DCPS is not. Even the boys and girls hang together in a way that I was not familiar with in middle school.

M AA child is on the honor roll and doing very well at the school and the child of my friend (also AA) is on the honor roll and doing well. Another AA friend as a bright child that is struggling a bit but getting hours of teacher help before and after school each week. She is now doing better.

AAs are doing well and getting help from the teachers when they ask for it.

No, BASIS isn't going to work for all kids. If your kid has been indoctrinated in a typical DCPS system of no homework, of social promotion, of toleration of talking in class and loitering in the halls, of kids coming to class late, et cetera - and expects the same at BASIS - then no, your kid will not do well and will struggle at BASIS. If on the other hand, your kid pays attention, behaves, follows direction, and does their homework, they will do fine at BASIS, as our kid and many others are doing.

Anonymous wrote:Would anyone care to share reflections on the pre-comps?

Basis pre-comps scores were on par with the other Basis schools.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry we all believed in BASIS DC but its falling through and revealing it's true colors. I hate to say this and even believe it....yes these people are looking out for one race and it's white. Our blacks students are suffering at this place....and the chubby Head of School looks like he knows what he says but observe him well...he's fake. He's not there for our children. I hate to admit this but it's the truth. It's run like Gestapo force...

Oh don't start this race bs please! I am AA and my child is doing fine. And I know other AA children that are doing well.