TKC MUST READ!!! ADVOCATES RAGE AGAINST BIG MONEY POLITICO/CORPORATE CHARTER DEAL OVERLOOKING VAST MAJORITY OF STUDENTS STRUGGLING IN KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS!!!
An EPIC fact check published today in The KC Call argues against a controversial strategy that defined outgoing Superintendent Green's tenure.
To wit . . .
CHECK THIS ARGUMENT AGAINST THE STOWERS BIG MONEY DEAL CHAMPIONED BY MAYOR SLY AND DR. GREEN GIVEN THAT IT IGNORES THE NEEDS OF MOST OF THE KCPS!!!
Check the thesis of the article:
Graduation Season: Time To Consider What's Best For All Students In KC
By More2
Charters have a tendency to attract invested parents, those willing to go the extra mile to seek enrollment in a new school for their children. Invested parents often raise higher performing students. Those students who have the greatest academic needs, homeless students, those who speak English as a second language, students with special needs, foster children and those living in extreme poverty are often left in the district because their parents are unable to navigate the charter systems or the charter denies admission because of their inability to meet the students needs . . .
Because of growing "competition" created by the presence of charter schools, Superintendent Green has been working with groups like Academie Lafayette and more recently the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, who desire a "partnership" with KCPS whereby they can create new charters, which includes taking over the district owned buildings. Talks have stalled on Academie Lafayette and the community remains divided. When the Stowers family offered $2 million to make Academie Lafayette HS Happen, Mayor James tried to hold a discussion between the charter school and KCPS Board Members, a talk that has yet to happen. Yet, people like like Jan Parks, Education Task Force Chair of More2 are curious why so many groups want to invest in a small percentage of the population versus the student population of KCPS as a whole. "A potential 15 million dollars could go a long way toward funding universal Pre-K for the entire school district," Parks noted.
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Read the article in its entirety . . .
What's important to understand here is not only the community rejection of this broken charter strategy but also the hope that a new Superintendent will take a different course.
Developing . . .
It is time to offer a quality option that is open to students in the KCMO Public Schools District. The proposal for Southwest and AL is an important step forward. It is time to stop wallowing in past failure and try something different to provide for students!
ReplyDeleteGreen only wanted green. The next guy will be the same, just like the one before him.
ReplyDeleteBlah, Blah, Blah..., oh yeah, we are trying to educate blacks who are steeped in the traditional "Hate Whitey And the System" bullshit, that in turn, matriculates blacks into the workplace, that are elevated, by way of Affirmative Action into jobs where, they fuck up, seriously, fuck, fuck, fuck up the flora and fauna associated with ANY company where they are hired.
ReplyDeleteThere are exceptions, that is why, we call them, "Exceptions".
The K C School district, like every, absolutely EVERY other school district in the US, where the demographic dictates the JOYS OF DIVERSITY, is totally fucked.
Here is why.
Blacks are 20 points or more, lower in IQ.
You can't fix that shit with Government money.
You can't fix that shit with legislation that centers on a dinosaur, historical, feel good, civil rights, Pollyanna wish.
Blacks are stupid in general and violent.
This has been ingrained into their psyche by WHITE Liberal leaders, who, have, over the last few decades, figured out, that it the 14% of blacks, vote exclusively Democratic, then, with that vote (Guaranteed by the EBT GOD), sinecure, union job safety, power and an unending stream of Tax Payer dollars will be directed to indolent, entitled, violent, Blacks, who are now, the equivalent of Germany's Brown Shirt, thugs in the streets, who, really run this country.
What happened to fixing these schools and selling them for different uses? That's what I thought Covington was going to do. Any progress on that?
ReplyDeleteNo one is stopping board members of groups like Urban League, Freedom or More 2 from pooling their money and donating 15M to the school district. Shut up and put up!
ReplyDeleteGroups like MORE2 just continue to drag down the very community they make believe they're trying to help by riding the same old "we've come a long way, but we're not there yet" civil rights industrial complex horse.
ReplyDeleteIt's 2015, not 1962 and it's way past time for parents and young people to take responsibility for their behavior and to take advantage of the opportunity and necessity to get an education.
What expertise in education do any of these groups have?
And what responsibility do they have for outcomes for the young people?
The board needs to suck it up, tell these folks thanks for their concern, then tell them to go home, and make decisions that benefit the kids.
There is little doubt that parents or students with the gumption to seek out a better school are more likely to succeed. That's not a bad thing. That IS where the money should be going. Those students who see their free, government-sponsored education as glorified daycare get what they want too.
ReplyDeleteThere's an old saying that comes to mind. Something about a horse and water. Those that wish to succeed will. Throwing money at the rest is a waste for all involved.
"Charters have a tendency to attract invested parents, those willing to go the extra mile to seek enrollment in a new school for their children. Invested parents often raise higher performing students."
ReplyDeleteSo the people who are "invested" get dragged down to the level of the lowest common denominator because the powers that be can't allow anyone to excel.
Universal Pre-K will turn out just like Head Start: it will have no effect on performance or behavior, but will suck up massive amounts of tax dollars and will go on forever. The Universal Pre-K proponents are not honest enough to admit that their real goal is to take minority kids at birth and put them in state run institutions of learning and indoctrination. What the heck, it would probably be better for the kids than what they have now.
ReplyDeleteThe oligarchy of KC companies wants to forget that they can't use public resources to fund their agenda. That is the real story TKC.
ReplyDeleteC'mon! all we need is one High School: KC Niglet High
ReplyDeleteHail to KC Niglet High
Home of the Pavement Apes
If we're not out there stealing stuff,
We're out committing rapes.
To Niglet High we stay so true
Like every loyal jigaboo
O'er rain and snow and sun and moon
Loyal sheboons, loyal coons
When we leave our Niglet High
The world cannot wait
But the world can rest assured -
Niggers never graduate!
KC schools are never going to get any better. It's time we let people transfer out of the district.
ReplyDelete"Jan Parks, Education Task Force Chair of MORE2".
ReplyDeleteAppointed by who?
Just another self-appointed meddler.
Hahahahahaha
ReplyDeleteKCPS claims a WHOPPIN' 54% of Blacks Graduate from District High Schools...though that number seems high. I've seen it listed as low as 38%.
SO...We Better NOT make SW High any harder or the District will look EVEN WORSE.
The District has a African American Centered High School...So why cant's we have a European American Centered High School?
SW High would be PERFECT for it...
We're headed toward a tiered school district with private funds and more opportunity for the 1% of students and only the scraps for everyone else. That's why we must press for private transfer credits. There is no fixing this broken system.
ReplyDeletekc = detroit
ReplyDeleteDetroit has better schools. Sorry, try again.
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ReplyDeleteHey 10:01
You're an IDIOT. The 1% DON'T SEND THEIR KIDS TO THE JUNGLE LAND OF KCPS.
We send them to Barstow, Pembrook, Rockburst, St. Teresa's and Sion. Where kids WANT TO LEARN.
I imagine the STOWERS would send their kids to KCPS if they were worth a shit.
Sadly, KCPS isn't worth a shit.
ReplyDeleteThis is what that dumb-ass "Education Task Force Leader" and the author is really saying:
"Since MOST KCPS Parents are stupid, lazy, absent and just don't give a shit...We should PENALIZE the Parents who are actually involved in their children's lives. And we shouldn't challenge their children by raising the educational barre. Let's let them instead fall behind and drop out, so they can follow in their parents' footsteps...to crime, prison or the welfare line..."
Pretty much sums it up.
11:26 it's Pembroke dipshit.
ReplyDeleteI think the key point is "UNABLE vs UNWILLING". Not sure if so much unable to navigate the system, but just unwilling.
ReplyDelete"Charters have a tendency to attract invested parents, those willing to go the extra mile to seek enrollment in a new school for their children. Invested parents often raise higher performing students."
ReplyDeleteSo the people who are "invested" get dragged down to the level of the lowest common denominator because the powers that be can't allow anyone to excel.
I have to agree
ReplyDelete8:42 -- Blame auto-correct...Besides, my kid went to Sion.