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Friday, January 13, 2012

Schools Matter: Vulture Philanthropy and Vulture Capital Limb Sitting in Providence, RI

Schools Matter: Vulture Philanthropy and Vulture Capital Limb Sitting in Providence, RI:

Vulture Philanthropy and Vulture Capital Limb Sitting in Providence, RI

Achievement First is a chain of zero tolerance, soul-crushing corporate charter schools built from the mold of the total compliance, autocracy-breeding KIPP schools, wherein poor minority children are brainwashed into embracing the creepy autocratic exceptionalism preached by their TFA/KIPP captors. With only a few years remaining of white majority rule in the U. S., these kinds of schools represent a crash program by white corporate America to seed their character values, or lack thereof, among other groups that will faithfully promulgate them once they are psychologically brutalized and behaviorally neutered from the earliest grades.

Make no mistake about it--behavioral and character traits are more important than academics, as KIPP's Mike Feinberg has admitted. In this brave new world of character report cards rounded to the second decimal place,