Posted on 07/03/2020 12:26:29 PM PDT by rickmichaels
On Wednesday the charter school organization The Knowledge is Power Program, commonly know as KIPP, announced that it will be retiring the slogan "Work hard. Be Nice." as school officials believe the phrase is counterproductive to abolishing systemic racism. Richard Barth, KIPP Foundation CEO, said in a press release that after a letter from KIPP Co-Founder Dave Levin about the ways in which the organization can change its culture, he decided to axe the slogan as it "diminishes the significant effort required to dismantle systemic racism."
"Over the last few weeks, we have all been working hard to turn words into action, recognizing that there is still much more work to be done to eliminate any practice at KIPP that furthers systemic racism, anti-Blackness, and inequities experienced by our students, alumni, families, teachers, and staff," said Barth.
Levin's letter was full of white guilt, expressing how he takes blame for not doing enough on behalf of KIPP to stop racial injustice. The practice of disciplining students of color instead of making them feel "affirmed, uplifted, and celebrated" was wrong, he said.
"In recent years, I have come face to face with the understanding that white supremacy doesn’t just mean the public and hateful displays of racism; it applies to all aspects of the world that are set up for the benefit of and perpetuation of power for white people at the expense of Black, Latinx, and other People of Color," said Levin.
"Work Hard. Be Nice." certainly has the outward appearance of promoting values that would make life better for every person who chose to espouse them. But to Barth, the idea of being nice and working hard offered too narrow of a future for children who might want to be lazy and mean in order to get what they want.
"[The slogan] places value on being compliant and submissive, supports the illusion of meritocracy, and does not align with our vision of students being free to create the future they want," his statement read.
In addition to the removal of the slogan, KIPP also plans to distribute grant money to communities most affected by the novel coronavirus and from racial trauma, eliminating discipline practices in schools that officials determine to be inequitable, providing a senior equity officer, along with countless other actions spurred by the killing of George Floyd.
Be slothful. Stay angry.
Every pandering honkey that uses or says “Latin-X” should be punched in the vagina.
Not being nice works the same in any direction. (For those who are to stupid to see this outright)
What can you say about the people who find “work hard be nice” to be offensive to anyone ... what they must think of black people is downright insulting ... and not a little bit racist if you ask me!
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Congratulations, these Pandering Idiots have just Destroyed Their Reason To Exist.
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I can no longer tell the difference between satire and reality, even when I check the source of a story.
What he's gonna axe it?
What’s the new motto? “Work hard, play hard”?
“If you aint first you’re last.”
I thought this was the Babylon Bee. WOW!
They want to use black people to bring down the Western capitalist system. For a lot of them, it isn’t about what they think of blacks, beyond their seeing them as political tools to be manipulated. They don’t want them to work hard, be nice, have the same standards applied to them as everyone else, or to succeed without the charity of the left, because blacks would never want political and societal revolt that way and then they’d be no use to the left.
This is the most racist decision by someone who thinks they are being non racist. Working hard is not a Black trait? They are incapable of working hard? This person is in effect saying that Blacks are lazy.
I guess so.
So acting black is what then, if being nice and working hard is acting white?
‘Work Hard. Be Nice’ is racist? Charter schools are almost as bad as public schools...
Changing it implies that black people are mean and lazy. THAT’S racist.
We’ve had custody of our 10-yo granddaughter since she was
6-mo. She is in an open-enrollment charter school that teaches, and enforces, honor and integrity. We volunteer at that school, and I’ve never seen a better bunch of kids.
GREAT staff and faculty, also. VERY dedicated. They’re allowed to do their jobs, TEACHING, and not indoctrinating.
You even see MAGA hats on some of the teachers in car line!
And, perhaps best of all, in the upper grades, two years of Western Civ is REQUIRED!
Our granddaughter was even asked to read her essay on George Washington Carver to the entire school at morning assembly, and we were invited to attend, also.
Now, about half of that essay consisted of his prayers, and looking out at the assembly, several teachers were wiping away tears.
I wish every child could have the opportunity to attend a school like that.
BTW, GWC was born about an hour from my house. There’s an amazing National Monument there. See it if you can!
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