> KIPP is for aspiring assembly line workers; Sidwell Friends is for the children of the elite.
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> What's so hard to understand?
Maybe this: there's less difference than you might think. The children of the elite are also under the harrow. It's really a kind of mass psychosis, our collective thinking abut what schools should do and achieve, and how we should all fall in with their program.
The elites send their kids to institutions which are just as totalizing and dehumanizing as the KIPP schools; but the grounds look nicer, and so do the teachers and the kids themselves. These schools don't admit any Ugly Ducklings.
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