tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post5270139245029045300..comments2024-03-28T11:57:21.902-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: The NAACP: Ignorant Dupes?Peter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-7219557482809934542016-10-18T09:35:47.193-04:002016-10-18T09:35:47.193-04:00"As Jim Horn has pointed out, one of the stor..."As Jim Horn has pointed out, one of the stories they might have heard was the story of Pryor's own school, where angry parents withdrew students over allegations of mistreatment and the Atlanta newspaper running a photo of KIPP students sitting on the floor, working toward the magic day when they would be judged compliant enough to 'earn' a desk."<br /><br />- - - - - - - -<br /><br />Mind you, this wasn't some "anomaly" --- to use Eva Moskowitz' word --- that was quickly discontinued a KIPP schools once it was exposed. It's sill in full use in at KIPP as well as in Achievement First, Uncommon Schools, and countless other charter chains. Those in charge admit this is still a regular practice, and defend this as necessary to achieve compliance from all their students.<br /><br />Here's a video of a parent, Leslie-Ann Byfield who is part of a group of parents currently suing Achievement First for this and other abusive practices. In the video below, she details that there were multiple "floors" upon which her son had to sit --- metaphorical hoops to jump through, as it were --- before finally was allowed to sit in "a regular chair."<br /><br />( 02:41 - )<br />https://vimeo.com/30227766<br />( 02:41 - )<br />LESLIE-ANN BYFIELD: "In the first week there, he (her son) was made to sit on the floor like this and told --- despite the fact that there were cafeteria tables present--- and they told them that he had to 'earn the right to' (move from the cafeteria floor and) go on the floor where his classroom was, and when he got on the (hallway) floor (where the classroom was located) and he was made to sit on the floor outside of the classroom, where he was told that he had to earn the right to go in the classroom, and this went on and on until he FINALLY go to sit in a regular chair. He (her son) never told me. It was three months before I found out that that had happened."<br /><br />Charter operators get away with this because the charter school model of government "authorization", with the resulting "unregulated school" governance allows those running charter schools the "freedom to innovate" such practices, as they are not bound by "regulations" that "tie their hands" as their hands would be if they were directly accountable to an elected school board.<br /> <br />Hypothetical question:<br /><br /><br />If a teacher at a traditional public school did this ...<br /><br />OR<br /><br />If a principal at a traditional public schools had all the teachers on his staff do this ...<br /><br /> ... what would happen?<br /><br />I'm just guessing here but if students came home from the first day at a traditional public school and told their parents about this "sit on the floor(s) and beg for a desk" treatment, all holy Hell would break loose, with parents screaming bloody murder at the teachers/administrators involved.<br /><br />Given that, it's important to ask:<br /><br />Would Campbell Brown's kids, who attend the rich kids private school Heschel ($40,000 - 50,000 tuition), be subjected to this?<br /><br />I don't think so.<br /><br />It's interesting how reformers applaud and approve (and wealthy folks fund through donations) this abusive, prison-like treatment for "other people's children"--- primarily poor, black & brown --- but would go thermonuclear if someone imposed ever it on their own.<br /><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911854468188214107noreply@blogger.com