KC and the KIPPnotizer Bandwagon Schools Matter

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KC and the KIPPnotizer Bandwagon

The day after Broad Academy alum, Supt. John Covington, began his public crowing about shuttering half of Kansas City's schools,the local media is already writing glowing reviews for KIPP and the KIPP knock-off charters, which are seen as the final solution for children incarcerated by poverty in the inner cities:

"We have a longer school day," said KIPP school leader John Richard. "Our teachers are available until nine p.m. for homework. We have Saturday school and mandatory summer school." . . . . Richard says that ever since the district first announced its massive resizing plan, interest in his school is on the rise.

"We expect to have a waiting list next year, which will be the first time we've had a waiting list," said Richard. "Which is a great problem to have."

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

1. 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),
2. 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,
3. 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