The future of public education in Gullyvornia?
Reporting from Oakland -- Not many schools in California recruit teachers with language like this: "We are looking for hard working people who believe in free market capitalism. . . . Multicultural specialists, ultra liberal zealots and college-tainted oppression liberators need not apply."
Sounds like Milton Friedman's wet dream. Or Augusto Pinochet's...
Under Chavis, the school also relied on humiliation to keep students in line, ridiculing miscreants and sometimes forcing them to wear embarrassing signs. When one boy was caught stealing, Chavis shaved his head in front of the entire school. (The boy, Jeremy Shiv, now a straight-A student at American Indian High, considers what Chavis did "pretty cruel.")
But John Winthrop-style degradation and humiliation pays off. The American Indian Charter School's Academic Performance Index is 967 on a scale from zero to 1,000. Hey, why should we worry about damaging a few young souls when the rest are performing at that level?
...Chavis shaved his head in front of the entire school.
No child left behind in action.
Posted by: Kvatch | May 31, 2009 at 05:18 PM
yes but when they graduate, get into a good college, and into a high paying job following that, they'll be able to afford the many years of counseling they will need to get over this incident.
Posted by: LewScannon | May 31, 2009 at 06:54 PM
Lew does have a point....
Posted by: The CultureGhost | May 31, 2009 at 08:23 PM
Conservatives ... adore the American Indian schools, which they see as models of a "new paternalism"
sounds like a fantastic slogan for one of Agi's propaganda posters.
Posted by: Montag | June 01, 2009 at 06:59 AM
I am so glad I don't have children; it would be half tempting to subject them to this type of indoctrination just to see how warped they turned out...I know what ten years of all boys prep school did to me....
Posted by: The CultureGhost | June 01, 2009 at 06:30 PM