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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKindergarteners are Being Suspended for Calling Out Answers During Class
http://yourblackeducation.com/kindergarteners-are-being-suspended-for-calling-out-answers-during-class/At Success Academy Prospect Heights, students have a list of 65 infractions that they must not commit. These infractions range from serious offenses like bullying and down to something as simple as failing to be in a ready-for-success position, whatever that means. Students are also not allowed to get out of their seats unless they have permission, nor can they call out an answer without raising their hand. All of these offenses can quickly lead to suspension.
In 2014, Success Academy Prospect Heights had 203 kindergarteners and first graders, and within that year, Monica Komery, the principal, issued 44 suspensions to only 11 students. Merrow revealed that 12 of those suspensions were given to one child before his family took him out of the school. At another Success school, 32 students accumulated 101 suspensions total. According to Merrow, the charter schools suspension rate is three times as high as the public schools throughout New York City....
Parents, former employees, and critics believe that Success Academy uses suspensions as a way of driving out the students who are deemed difficult or who have the potential of doing poorly on standardized testing, which would bring down the schools and networks testing averages, although Moskowitz denies the allegations. Interestingly enough, for every 100 students that are admitted into the program, 10 leave within the first few months.
LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)Iris
(15,648 posts)Sorry for the language but this is too much.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)the elites don't want your kids educated, they want them trained.
Reminds me of the Duggars' child-rearing technique of parking the baby on the blanket and teaching him/her to stay there.
kiva
(4,373 posts)It's a charter school - a public charter school, but still not the default public school for that area, so parents have to make the effort to get their kids into that school...which has a terrible reputation for 'dumping' ELL students and students with any sort of issues.
As long as parents willingly jump through hoops to get their kids into charter schools and private academies and religious schools this will happen - parents either won't read the (often ridiculous) rules or will assume that they couldn't possibly apply to their child; the child will act like a kid and get into trouble (see above, ridiculous rules) and the parents will complain to the media. Wash, rinse, repeat.
My sympathy is gone for everyone in this scenario except for the kids, who never got a choice in the matter.
TBF
(32,000 posts)and they are putting them in low income neighborhoods. Crowd control. The 1% have no intention of giving up a single cent. If the kids don't learn compliance quickly there is plenty of room at the for-profit prisons.
Moliere
(285 posts)She carves out portions of public school buildings while paying no rent, and then seals them off so only her students have access. She cherry picks her student body and ships under performing kids to public schools then claims Success has better scores than public schools. She pulls kids out of school to bus them to AstroTurf protests to open more schools. Scary part is she's expanding her presence.
May your community never have the fortune of having her invade it
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)One day I hope to hear her sing "Don't cry for me, New York City..."
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)I know there's a certain level of compliance and discipline needed in a classroom, but expecting perfection and doling out punishment for the least little thing is counterproductive.
Unless you're raising obedient worker drones who don't know to question their own abuse.