What you will find is the typical KIPP teacher is young, single and typically with fewer years of experience. Most teachers with families & years under their belt do not wish to endure the required “on-call” & Saturday duties for KIPP schools. I know some people like to think of teaching as a “calling” or something that is more than it really is but the reality is…it’s a job. Most teachers do the best they can with what they have; but it’s not our life, it’s how we make a living. Anyone who wants a marytr if front of their kid’s class is ignorant. Teachers who wish to be marytrs end up a frazzled, soon to be heavily medicated burn-out.

Yes, parents volunteer for their students to go to KIPP, but most often, the principal recruits students withing the neighborhood. KIPP removes students much less frequently than normal schools, instead there is a huge focus on tackling little problems before they become big and supporting the discipline decisions the teachers make. Finally, all KIPP schools are first-come, first-serve. Whichever students want to come, can come until the capacity of the school is reached.

Yes, our behavior expectation contracts are great (teachers sign one too, btw), but I firmly believe they would be empty pieces of paper in the hands of most educators.

I had awsome teachers in private school and they made very little. They knew their stuff and they cared.

This is just more window dressing hoping to cover up the failings of an immorally-funded and functionally unworkable government run system of education.

Do you have any sources for your statement? As a classroom teacher I work at the pleasure of the local school board. Every year, to include this one, the county I teach in has to hire a bunch of new teachers. Why you may ask??? Because our county has a reputation of discipline problems in the schools. Why do we have discipline problems??? Talk to the administrators, I can only control what goes on in my class. I’ll tell you this though; when I write a student up for touching a girl inappropriately and then he cusses me out when I tell him to stop and he is back in my class after a two day ISS stint, don’t you dare say that I couldn’t make it at whatever school you think might be doing a better job.

Of course,teachers don’t like these experiments because what is implied is that all those teachers who are left at public schools are the ones who couldn’t quite make it to the list of good teachers to be hired by KIPP and other schools.