Would you put your white kid in KIPP or Center City?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would have absolutely no hesitation for my child to be the only white kid.

I would have absolutely 100% hesitation to ever send my child to a KIPP school. I taught in one for years. Don't do it.

Can you explain why not?

100%

[Anonymous]

I would not put a child of any race or ethnicity into these schools. They are abusive and all they care about are test scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would not put a child of any race or ethnicity into these schools. They are abusive and all they care about are test scores.

Center City is not like that at all though. It’s really a quite nurturing environment, in my experience.

[Anonymous]

Kipp is not a nice place to work. I would not put my child there. Their White leaders don’t. That says a lot.

[Anonymous]

Why would I put my upper SES white child in a De facto experimental bootcamp for poor DC kids with minimal prospects? Sounds cold but stop and think about what they are trying to do and who their target audience is and how on earth that applies to a kid with a winter crash pad in Breckinridge.

Then again we are most likely going to opt out of DCPS at middle due to the growing disparity between the students, and their academic levels.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t put any kids into Center City schools until they start teaching social studies again which they eliminated in favor of a fake humanities that uses an ELA curriculum called Wit and Wisdom. https://centercitypcs.org/for-parents/curriculum/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kipp is not a nice place to work. I would not put my child there. Their White leaders don’t. That says a lot.

Did you work at KIPP in DC? (You don't even spell it correctly so it seems doubtful) My partner teaches there and loves it and we are seriously considering putting our white child there when they're old enough. It's a great place to teach for many, and a great place to learn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would I put my upper SES white child in a De facto experimental bootcamp for poor DC kids with minimal prospects? Sounds cold but stop and think about what they are trying to do and who their target audience is and how on earth that applies to a kid with a winter crash pad in Breckinridge.

Then again we are most likely going to opt out of DCPS at middle due to the growing disparity between the students, and their academic levels.

I would not put my kids in a school with no other white students, but I also would not knowingly put my kids in a school where people use summer as a verb or have a winter place in “Breckinridge.” The former is easier to control for: is there a report cards that helps screen against pretentious peeps like PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would I put my upper SES white child in a De facto experimental bootcamp for poor DC kids with minimal prospects? Sounds cold but stop and think about what they are trying to do and who their target audience is and how on earth that applies to a kid with a winter crash pad in Breckinridge.

Then again we are most likely going to opt out of DCPS at middle due to the growing disparity between the students, and their academic levels.

Cold but couldn't be more obvious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kipp is not a nice place to work. I would not put my child there. Their White leaders don’t. That says a lot.

Did you work at KIPP in DC? (You don't even spell it correctly so it seems doubtful) My partner teaches there and loves it and we are seriously considering putting our white child there when they're old enough. It's a great place to teach for many, and a great place to learn.

Yes. I did. NONE. Not one of their senior leaders - black or white chooses it for their kids. NOT ONE.

Period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kipp is not a nice place to work. I would not put my child there. Their White leaders don’t. That says a lot.

Did you work at KIPP in DC? (You don't even spell it correctly so it seems doubtful) My partner teaches there and loves it and we are seriously considering putting our white child there when they're old enough. It's a great place to teach for many, and a great place to learn.

Yes. I did. NONE. Not one of their senior leaders - black or white chooses it for their kids. NOT ONE.

Period.

For what it's worth, every teacher and principal I've ever had (as both a student, teacher, and administrator in both traditional and public charter schools) had kids. And no teacher or principal had those kids attend the school where they taught. I don't know if that's really the barometer I'd use to decide whether or not to send my child to a school. You sound pretty bitter. Not every school is for every teacher or for every student. Sounds like KIPP wasn't a good fit for you but it doesn't mean that it's not a good fit for others.

[Anonymous]

I am not bitter.

I am simply answering the question that was asked. Would you put your white kid at Kipp. No. Why? Because NONE of the Kipp white leaders choose kipp for their kids. Why? It is not good enough for their kids. They each get paid over $250k. But it is still not good enough for their kids.

[Anonymous]

It's better to be a minority in a white majority then vice versa. Poverty, broken households and unsupervised in majority blackm it's ok to attack the majority race but not vice versa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not bitter.

I am simply answering the question that was asked. Would you put your white kid at Kipp. No. Why? Because NONE of the Kipp white leaders choose kipp for their kids. Why? It is not good enough for their kids. They each get paid over $250k. But it is still not good enough for their kids.

That's a big assumption. It's your right to live in logical fallacy but it doesn't make it intellectually defensible. You have no idea what people think is good enough for their kids unless you had that explicit discussion.

[Anonymous]

I did not read this entire thread, so apologies for that, but I will say that we struggled with this question when our kids were younger. I was an "only" when I was a child - the only of our religious minority, and while I looked like all the other kids, I knew I was different (and was teased for it), even from a young age, and I did not want that "only" experience for my kids.