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I have an upper elementary child at KIPP, and I find it insulting when people who have never set foot in one (let alone observed a class) call it a "kill and drill" school. I find it very focused on critical thinking, and while it is structured the teachers/admin have age appropriate expectations. The teachers are wonderful (my child has never even had a mediocre teacher - they've all been excellent), and while the school has its issues, it's working for my middle class white child. No school is perfect, and that includes KIPP, but their curriculum and teachers have my child testing at the 95th and 99th percentile in math and reading on the MAP, and he is challenged in class every day. I do NOT supplement outside of school, so it's not me that's helping his scores improve every year.

The "kill and drill" rumor is UMC white people making the assumption that poor students of color can only learn when forced to memorize everything, and that the school ONLY teaches to the test. It's not true, it's just a way of diminishing those kids accomplishments.

You don't have to consider the school. I don't care if you don't. But please don't say it's "kill and drill", when all you know is the rumors and what racist rich people on DCUM say about it. [/quote]

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