During the 2007-2008 school year, California’s Office of Child and Protective Services notified Fresno Unified School District, the charter authorizer for KIPP Fresno, that a student at KIPP Fresno had threatened suicide following a punishment administered by KIPP Fresno’s out-of-control CEO, Chi Tschang. It seems that Mr. Tschang did not bother to notify the parents of the threat.
And thus began an lengthy investigation by Fresno Unified School District, which culminated in a 64 page “Notice to Cure and Correct Violations,” a document that recounts in harrowing detail the abusive punishments between 2004 and 2008, all of which were authorized or personally meted out by Mr. Tschang. READ THE CALIFORNIA REPORT.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.nypost.com/r/nypost/2010/11/01/news/media/Chi%20Tschang%20Fresno%20school%20district%20report.pdf(The report on Tschang alleges punishments he administered such as picking up students, removing their chairs, and dropping them on the floor; forcing them ("slamming them") against walls while yelling at them; cutting the strings or hoods off their sweatshirts; making them stand within a circle outside for hours; taping students to their chairs; having students sit outside in the cold for two days; throwing students' belongings such as backpacks, etc.)
The reason I am offering up this collection of posts is to remind the world that, even though KIPP Fresno was shuttered in May 2009 and Mr. Tschang resigned from KIPP Fresno in February 2009, the Tschang story is not over.
Despite his punitive ministrations that, according to the Report, included making children bark like a dog, taking children’s eye glasses from them, making children stand out in the cold for hours, picking up children and dropping them on the floor, isolating children, screaming at children, emotionally-abusing children, making children stand in the sun for 2 hours during the summer, telling children to put their “ugly face toward the wall, and, otherwise, going “beyond the bounds of the law” (Notice to Cure and Correct, p. 8)—despite all this and more, as recounted below, Mr. Tschang will be presenting a session this coming Sunday morning at the Teach for America Conference in D.C. Accompanied by CEO, Doug McCurry, of Achievement First Schools, Inc. this dynamic duo's session is entitled Bringing the “Joy Factor” Into Your School.
Co-CEO McCurry has become the chief protector of Mr. Tschang during this period of transition from KIPP goon to Achievement First goon. Indeed, Achievement First has hired Mr. Tschang as a principal in one of Achievement First’s Brooklyn operations, Achievement First Crown Heights—despite complaints by parents of physical and emotional abuse of children there in Crown Heights by Mr. Tschang in Mr. Tschang’s school.
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2011/02/documented-kipp-abuser-to-speak-sunday.html
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