Schools Matter: KC and the KIPPnotizer Bandwagon

[tonysam]

Very good piece about what is going on:

For oligarchs like Eli Broad, Bill Gates and the Waltons, KIPP offers several advantages to the public schools:


KIPP's total compliance pedagogy offers the advantage of segregated testing camps based on total behavioral containment and psychological sterilization of minorities (without public oversight),

KIPP's management offers a corporate structure that leaves employees without job security, due process, or the kind of health and retirement benefits that have been one of the drawing cards for underpaid teachers for generations,

and in terms of product accountability, KIPP generates the required bottom line for the survivors of its regimen, higher test scores.


High test scores, then, serve to assuage any potential guilt for the Arne Duncans of the world, those liberal closet racists who want to achieve a colorblind society by forcing impoverished segregated black children to act like white children out in the leafy suburbs--if those white children were being fed a diet of positive psychology and learned helplessness.

In short, KIPP is the solution to the scourge of multiculturalism and the browning of America, and KIPP's nano-cultural and anti-democratic ethos is the best hope, indeed, for making every color in American society recede into the background except white. Voila--colorblindness!

With the numerical browning of America predicted within the next generation, the mission to psychologically bleach urban America has turned into a crusade that is no less intense than the one that galvanized progressives and conservatives, alike, in America at the beginning of the 20th Century around the promise of eugenics as the way to rid society of defectives that threatened the purity of the race and the economic well-being of the corporations.

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