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I’m jumping the gun a bit, but school starts soon so let’s trot out a regular Kid You Not feature: report cards.
A+: Highville Mustard Seed Charter School in Hamden. Congratulations to the other charter school in Greater New Haven. Everybody knows all about the wonderful Amistad Academy in New Haven and its high achieving kids. Now Highville has produced some of the highest scores in that state on the ’06 Connecticut Mastery Test. Is there any doubt now that the charter school model is one of the best ways to close the achievement gap? Low-income minority kids are as smart or smarter than any Woodbridge or Guilford kid, they just need dedicated teachers and a school that is committed to success.
Highville receives $3,000 less per student than public schools, so don’t listen to teacher unions that insist more taxpayers’ money is the solution to better inner-city schools.
There is no reason why an inner-city public school can’t be run like Highville or Amistad, as long as the teachers, administrators and parents figure out that the kids come first. That means teachers agreeing to work longer days, administrators trying innovative ideas and parents volunteering in the school.
B: Quinnipiac University, for ranking so low in the “politically active” category in the new Princeton Review survey of colleges. Just because the kids at QU aren’t burning George Bush in effigy doesn’t mean they aren’t concerned about politics.
D: You know where burning George Bush in effigy is actually an extra-credit assignment? Wesleyan University. WU is ranked in the same survey as “most politically active.” At WU, everyone is a victim, everyone is oppressed and all LGBT kids have their own dorm. Then, after four short years, they go into the real world and find out no one gives a crap about how special they are.
F: The Dutch courts recognize a political party made up of pedophiles who want the legal age of consent dropped from 16 to 12.
F: First Baptist Church in Watertown, NY fires a beloved Sunday school teacher because the pastor adheres to an Old Testament bible passage that states women cannot teach men.
A+: Highville Mustard Seed Charter School in Hamden. Congratulations to the other charter school in Greater New Haven. Everybody knows all about the wonderful Amistad Academy in New Haven and its high achieving kids. Now Highville has produced some of the highest scores in that state on the ’06 Connecticut Mastery Test. Is there any doubt now that the charter school model is one of the best ways to close the achievement gap? Low-income minority kids are as smart or smarter than any Woodbridge or Guilford kid, they just need dedicated teachers and a school that is committed to success.
Highville receives $3,000 less per student than public schools, so don’t listen to teacher unions that insist more taxpayers’ money is the solution to better inner-city schools.
There is no reason why an inner-city public school can’t be run like Highville or Amistad, as long as the teachers, administrators and parents figure out that the kids come first. That means teachers agreeing to work longer days, administrators trying innovative ideas and parents volunteering in the school.
B: Quinnipiac University, for ranking so low in the “politically active” category in the new Princeton Review survey of colleges. Just because the kids at QU aren’t burning George Bush in effigy doesn’t mean they aren’t concerned about politics.
D: You know where burning George Bush in effigy is actually an extra-credit assignment? Wesleyan University. WU is ranked in the same survey as “most politically active.” At WU, everyone is a victim, everyone is oppressed and all LGBT kids have their own dorm. Then, after four short years, they go into the real world and find out no one gives a crap about how special they are.
F: The Dutch courts recognize a political party made up of pedophiles who want the legal age of consent dropped from 16 to 12.
F: First Baptist Church in Watertown, NY fires a beloved Sunday school teacher because the pastor adheres to an Old Testament bible passage that states women cannot teach men.
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