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Love this piece, as always, by @EricaLG. Some thoughts. That anyone wld consider any of our children, no matter their circumstance, irredeemable speaks exactly to why we get such poor results w blk children. None of our children are irredeemable. They don't need to be redeemed
.@KingJames could have opened a charter. He did not. He did not take from the system that serves most kids, but added to it. He remained part of the democratic system of schools and all of their regulations and safeguards, giving lie to the notion that only charters can innovate.
A THIRD of these kids receive special education services -- numbers you will not find at almost no high-performing charters. But also that speaks to how we are using special ed when it comes to black students as proxy for the poor education they have received.
By working within the public system @KingJames avoided what is my biggest pet peeves, which is people with no educational backgrounds assuming that running schools and teaching kids requires no educational expertise. Tht as long as you are smart at one thing, you can do this.
And last, these early results show what all of us who cover education and work in education know -- we know exactly what needs to be done to educate our most disadvantaged kids. We just most often choose not to do it.
