The principal of Sacramento Charter High School resigned in protest, siding with the students who were demonstrating against teacher turnover, a change in the dress code, and other arbitrary rules.
The school is part of the St. Hope Charter Chain, founded by former Sacramento Mayor (and basketball star) Kevin Johnson, and managed by him and his wife Michelle Rhee.
“Sacramento Charter High School’s top administrator has resigned just days after students left classes in protest and she blasted St. Hope administrators for what she said was the school’s “sustained history of neglect from above” and their “reactionary finger-pointing” in their handling of the student walkout.
“Christina Smith in a strongly worded one-page letter dated Monday and obtained Wednesday by The Sacramento Bee, threw her support behind the students, saying the demonstrations and the blame laid at Smith’s feet in its wake by leaders of St. Hope Public Schools, which runs the charter high school, were among the tipping points that led to her resignation as the school’s site lead…
“Some 100 students staged four days of walkouts frustrated that student-led changes to the campus’ handbook approved at the end of the 2017-2018 school year were set aside by St. Hope officials and that students were ordered by the officials to wear costly school-mandated uniforms.
“We feel like we’re being stripped of our voices,” said senior Keishay Swygert during Friday’s demonstration, part of four days of protest against St. Hope administrators. “We want our school back.”
“Other students on Wednesday bemoaned a high teacher turnover rate, a lack of textbooks, arbitrary rule-making by school leaders and an environment that does not properly prepare its students for college.”
Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article218292925.html#storylink=cpy
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Very encouraging!
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I hope they’re getting good coaching behind the scenes.
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I don’t understand why parents allow their frustrated children to continue to go to this school. It obviously isn’t meeting the needs of the students. A “high teacher turnover rate, a lack of textbooks, arbitrary rule-making by school leaders and an environment that does not properly prepare its students for college” should mean leave and let the school close down. Let it be one more worthless charter down the drain.
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I don’t understand why parents allow their frustrated children to continue…
“This process of creating the conformist and at the same time supporting the cult
of the individual, is what Foucault calls normalizing. It involves five distinct
operations. “The perpetual penalty that traverses all points and supervises every
instant in the disciplinary institutions compares, differentiates, hierarchizes,
homogenizes, excludes. In short, it normalizes” (Foucault, 1992, p183).
So what a child (or adult) does is seen not in its own right, but in the light of
what others do. Behaviour and product, and ultimately relations and being, are
constructed and thus perceived and conceived in comparative terms. So I do not
exist in relation to others, but in comparison to them; I become an object in the
field of comparison, rather than a subject in the field of creative and responsive
relation.
The thrust of this comparison is not identification, but differentiation; the
comparison focuses not on the similarities, but on the differences. The effect
then is not to produce belonging and cohesion, but rather alienation and
separation. And this differentiation is not in terms of the infinite variety of
human behaviour and persona, but within a simple hierarchical catagorization
of better or worse. To achieve this it is necessary to collapse the variety, the
complexity, into a few single dimensions of value. And because the individual
performances are indeed always multi-dimensional, and idiosyncrasies always
do become visible, it becomes logically necessary to attach the value to the
person, and not to the performance. The notions of skill, ability, attitude,
intelligence, competence, morality, are uni-dimensional, and thus can be
categorised and hierarchized as more or less, because they meet the joint
requirements of unity and invisibility, and incidentally, of fantasy.”
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¡Sí señor! De acuerdo.
or in plain English: YEP!
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But heaven forbid that we Americans would listen to a modern (some would say postmodern*) French thinker, eh!
*Foucault himself denied that label.
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I love it when the charter people screw up and this is just another case of how charters are sooooo dysfunctional. Yet the charter people want us to think that charters some how are the greatest thing since sliced pizza – No, charter schools are filled with revolving door teachers, corrupt ownership clearly looking to make mula instead of teaching kids.
In this case the basketball player invests the money and then plays teacher…..I am laughing so loud I cannot stand myself right now. The chalkbeats of the world with the 74 websites are clearly giving us a heap of crap about their precious charter schools.
I was walking down the street for lunch and came across a big beautiful silver building which donned the name blank charter school. I could not help myself into thinking that some creepy billionaire bought the building for cash and then wants to rape tax payers for the rest of the costs associated with running a school. This is the biggest sham since PT Barnum folks.
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isnt michell rhee the one who slapped a kid when she was in washington dc….she put tape on the kids mouth to stop talking….you can look it up
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I applaud this principled administrator.
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