[lbo-talk] compare & contrast: KIPP vs. Sidwell Friends

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Fri Jun 10 07:08:48 PDT 2011


On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:54:54 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> I wish I had the money to send my kid to St Ann's.

I wish you did too. And if you did, you probably would send your kid there, if they would take him -- an outcome by no means foreordained, by the way, since they're very picky. (No reflection intended on The Hope Of The Henwoods; lots of wonderful smart attractive kids get turned down by these places.)

Nobody could criticize you for doing so; when you really do have to choose evils, choose the lesser. And for kids whose minds and personalities are suited to the totalizing regimen at these places, it can be a reasonably painless experience.

For the kids who aren't suited to it -- well, there are no lesser evils. Schooling, "progressive" or not, is sheer misery for them.

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