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The rookie mistake was by the unqualified dean who made a threat he can't deliver on -- I hope he becomes yet one more in a string of supposed male role models who aren't the right fit for this school.[quote]

I completely agree.

What is so interesting is that someone has now defended the Dean's behavior on the basis that he [b]"came from the DCPS system and knows how things are done there"[/b]  I wonder whether the mistress of the tardies also came from DCPS.  They are a couple, and it would explain a lot.

Because the real question is [b]which DCPS system he came from[/b], and whether that is really the way you want Basis kids to be treated. Because those who have left say they left in part because they were mistreated, and we are not supposed to be KIPP lite.  We are supposed to be a Basis school.  We are supposed to be attracting the best and the brightest from all wards.  But this would never have happened at a JKLM school, and I doubt it would happen at Deal.  It certainly would not happen at a private school unless it was the football coach.

So how are we going to attract and retain all those unicorns who come from Ward 3 and private schools?  All those sons and daughters of professionals?

Not by having some thug threaten the academic future of our 8th graders.  Because they will leave.

This article was posted on a thread where a mom was upset because her child is being yelled at all the time in her crappy EOTP school.  It talks about the different methods of discipline depending on what social class the students are from, and is quite illuminating.

OP your story reminded me of a report from 1980 that someone posted on DCUM a while ago, Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work: http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~cac/nlu/fnd504/anyon.htm Read the section on "working class school". Apparently not a lot has changed since 1980.

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