BASIS.ed Reviews

If you plan to be a career educator, DO NOT teach at Basis. The corporate human resource policy at Basis prohibits its managers from providing a reference for a former teacher. Basis will only verify a teacher's employment dates. This business like corporate approach does not work in education. Teachers need references. If a teacher leaves Basis, they cannot get a teaching reference from Basis; therefore, from a career perspective, time spent teaching at Basis results in wasted time. Unless an educator plans to spend their entire teaching career at Basis, they should NOT teach at Basis. When Basis attempts to hire an experienced teacher, Basis managers will check teaching references. But Basis DOES NOT provide the same professional courtesy. Thus, Basis management DOES NOT respect educators as professionals with careers.

No real training. If you "fell into" teaching/came from another field, this is a good way to get classroom experience and decide whether teaching children is really an avenue you think you'd like. If you have passionate views about what education should or shouldn't be, this isn't the place for you. Management has no such views, seemingly. It's a business to them. They have beliefs about how to keep their bottom line from drying up and how to maintain nationally-recognized test scores. Outside of that, they don't care. You're a warm body to them, completely disposable, regardless of your qualifications. They retain students who are disrespectful, lazy, and apathetic and blame the teachers for their poor scores. It's easier to do that than anger parents. They're all about their public image to an unhealthy and unjust level. You have zero support as an educator. Plus, the infrastructure is atrocious. Everything is falling apart, from mechanical things, to electronics, to doorknobs, to toilets. We're packed like sardines into a tiny joke of a building. Wildly underfunded.