Kipp Academies Self-Deconstruct

As it happens, I only reported part of the Kipp Academy story in my prior post this morning, entitled: "Charter Schools Go Woke." 

Joanne Jacobs has the rest:

In a letter to alumni, [Kipp] co-founder Dave Levin apologizes for a culture that “perpetuated white supremacy and anti-Blackness.”

The most common example of this is discipline practices that center on compliance and control and have not consistently and constructively affirmed, uplifted, and celebrated your identities, your families, your communities, and our Black and Latinx staff.

So, discipline is a sign of white supremacy, And yet, without discipline no one ever learns anything.

Jacobs continues, explaining that Kipp schools no longer expect high achievement. They have adopted the therapy culture idiocy about being authentically oneself. Whatever does that mean?:

Levin also apologizes for pushing college too hard, sending a “college or failure” message. Some graduates have told him they “felt unable to authentically be yourselves, unable to receive professional development designed for your needs, and haven’t had your career aspirations met.”

So, Kipp students have notably done very well. But, in today’s cultural environment, we can’t have that.

Most KIPP students — 95 percent black or Latino, 88 percent from lower-income families — outperform students in district schools, the network reports.

For low-income students, attending KIPP and other high-performing charters quadruples their odds of earning a bachelor’s degree, writes Richard Whitmire, author of The Alumni, in LA School Report.