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Yes, there are poor families who have the internal structure of UMC families, but they are in the minority in DC. KIPP is targeting those kids whose parents don't ask about homework, aren't conditioned to sit and pay attention to a teacher, who don't know the "soft skills" that UMC kids learn. They are in the business of filling gaps. [/quote]

This is unbelievably racist. You think that the white UMC kids of DC have the soft skills that make them "conditioned to sit and pay attention to a teacher"? No, they have parents who will argue that it's not developmentally appropriate for them to sit still and that they need a yoga ball or fidget or ability to move during lessons or... any number of things. It is the white parents I know who don't ask about homework and argue for less of it. Sheesh.[/quote]

Those parents at whom you scoff have the academic research on their side. In any event, what bothers you so much about a fidget toy? What's wrong with not wanting an overload of homework?[/quote]

:roll: I was once one of those parents, and my son actually needs structure.  There's no "academic research" showing that lack of structure is good for kids.  Lack of structure was awful for him, actually.  [/quote]

But I suspect he didn't need his school to teach him how to listen to someone or how to fill out a job application. He's getting that at home. That's the stuff KIPP is providing alongside academics. [/quote]

I'm a NP but actually I don't know how true the previous comment is for many UMC kids these days. I say this as a new parent who has watched two cousins (also UMC) whose parents have pretty much done everything for them and I don't know how capable they are of doing many of the things that we all likely had to do as teenagers - e.g. get a part time job, advocate for yourself, call the darn cell phone company to change your plan.  I know this may be off topic but I've seen it play out twice so far in my own family and have heard from other friends who are teachers that many of the young adults/teens they encounter these days applying for jobs etc. have mommies and daddies who do all the heavy lifting for them.  I know I digress from the topic at hand....As a relatively new parent I know I shouldn't judge but I've been pretty shocked by what I've seen in my own UMC family.[/quote]

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