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  • Because Racism: Charter School System to Remove 'Work Hard. Be Nice.' as Its Official Slogan

    07/03/2020 12:26:29 PM PDT · by rickmichaels · 70 replies
    Townhall ^ | July 3, 2020 | Alex Corey
    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...