Still think Charters are the answer? Here’s just another example of how BASIS tries to weed out students who don’t meet their academic standards. If you are not dedicated to serving public education, don’t accept public funding.
Everywhere you look there are wonderful stories and elegant arguments about why charters are GREAT for kids… especially poor Latina/os and Blacks. Today Cloaking Inequity has an exclusive— another horror story from a charter parent. I first discussed the BASIS charter schools, a quasi for-profit charter chain (see What BASIS?: Nepotism and aggrandizement in charters?), in the post Parent Horror Stories from BASIS: Corporate Charter Hurting Children? It is still one of the five most popular posts ever on Cloaking Inequity. Here at Cloaking Inequity we can deliver the counter-narrative. Without further ado, here is an open letter from a concerned parent.
Public Charter School Board
3333 14th Street, NW, Suite 210
Washington, DC 20010
Hello Ms. [BASIS administrator],
The purpose of this email is to establish a formal complaint against the Public Charter School Basis-DC. My son, [student name], is 12 and in the 6th grade. He is a Sixth grader that has…
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