Inspirational quote on a KIPP teacher’s classroom door
I visited KIPP High School in New York City a few months ago and wrote about it. My post was pretty generous — perhaps too generous — so I’m going to write more about what I saw there in a few small posts.
In my last post I put a picture I took of the $400 senior dues poster. This wasn’t really that controversial, but I found it interesting that they would do KIPP style ‘spin’ on how the $400 was such a deal since it really should be over $800. It seemed like an unnecessarily large amount of money to ask families to pay, even if it was a great deal.
I wasn’t running around snapping pictures or having a hidden camera in my hat or anything. I actually only took two pictures, and I’ll put the other one here.
This was on the door of one of the teachers (I blacked out the teacher’s last name). When I saw it was a quote about ‘failure’ I expected something inspirational along the lines of “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try,
In my last post I put a picture I took of the $400 senior dues poster. This wasn’t really that controversial, but I found it interesting that they would do KIPP style ‘spin’ on how the $400 was such a deal since it really should be over $800. It seemed like an unnecessarily large amount of money to ask families to pay, even if it was a great deal.
I wasn’t running around snapping pictures or having a hidden camera in my hat or anything. I actually only took two pictures, and I’ll put the other one here.
This was on the door of one of the teachers (I blacked out the teacher’s last name). When I saw it was a quote about ‘failure’ I expected something inspirational along the lines of “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try,