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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Schools Matter: Detention First at Segregated Charter School Chain Gangs

Schools Matter: Detention First at Segregated Charter School Chain Gangs

Detention First at Segregated Charter School Chain Gangs

On any given day, 20 percent of children at Achievement First's apartheid reform schools are doing time for the slightest infraction. It's part of the penal pedagogy system perfected by KIPP and Martin Seligman's team of psychologists trained in the dark science of learned helplessness and learned optimism. These are the corporate reform schools whose freedom to innovate and steal public money has become the license to imprison school children in segregated testing camps.

It's all about total compliance and psychological sterilization, which is the chosen corporate solution to all the problems attendant to poverty, which is on no hedge funder's to-fix list or Hollywood propagandist's expose-list.

When will the NAACP and the Urban League shut down these corporate welfare madrassahs that no parent in the leafy suburbs would allow for their children to be exposed to?

From the Daily News:
She has served detention for slouching, humming and failing to look her teachers in the eye.