KIPP charter schools tell teachers what to do in ear piece

[yurbud]

This reads like a bad satire, but it's real.

The test of any of the crap that corporate education reformers come up with is whether they would send their own kids to schools like this or demand that their kids elite private schools are run the same way.

I don't think so.

Democratic politicians need to realize that can't afford to take donations from and follow the orders of the Wall Street crowd trying to take over public education or they will lose not only teachers, but parents, and the kids who had to endure this once they are grown up.

They're short term corruption will pay off with a potentially terminal cancer on the party and possibly kill it.

*Give him a warning,* said the voice through the earpiece I was wearing. I did Tom Bradyas instructed, speaking in the emotionless monotone I’d been coached to use. But the student, a sixth grader with some impulsivity issues and whose trust I’d spent months working to gain, was excited and spoke out of turn again. *Tell him he has a detention,* my earpiece commanded. At which point the boy stood up and pointed to the back of the room, where the three classroom *coaches* huddled around a walkie talkie. *Miss: don’t listen to them! You be you. Talk to me! I’m a person! Be a person, Miss. Be you!*

Meet C3PO

Last year, my school contracted with the Center for Transformational Training or CT3 to train teachers using an approach called No Nonsense Nurturing. It c3powas supposed to make us more effective instructors by providing *immediate, non-distracting feedback to teachers using wireless technology.* In other words, earpieces and walkie talkies. I wore a bug in my ear. I didn’t have a mouthpiece. Meanwhile an official No Nonsense Nurturer, along with the school’s first year assistant principal and first year behavior intervention coach, controlled me remotely from the corner of the room where they shared a walkie talkie. I referred to the CT3 training as C-3PO after the Star Wars robot, but C-3PO actually had more personality than we were allowed. The robot also spoke his mind.

No Nonsense Nurturing™

If you’re not familiar with No Nonsense Nurturing or NNN, let’s just say that there is more nonsense than nurturing. The approach starts from the view that no nonsense urban students, like my Lawrence, MA middle schoolers, benefit from a robotic style of teaching that treats, and disciplines, all students the same. This translated into the specific instruction that forbade us from speaking to our students in full sentences. Instead, we were to communicate with them using precise directions. As my students entered the room, I was supposed to say: *In seats, zero talking, page 6 questions 1-4.* But I don’t even talk to my dog like that. Constant narration of what the students are doing is also key to the NNN teaching style. *Noel is is finishing question 3. Marjorie is sitting silently. Alfredo is on page 6.*

https://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/kipp-and-the-behavior-modification-of-teachers/

[MisterP]

1. amazingly, this ISN'T tied to Scientology

(even if it's literally Study Tech); it's from Bill Gates, who takes a techie approach to everything--"I'm rich so I'm omnicompetent: drop everything you're doing and obey my drunk cocktail-napkin doodle!" is a big problem here, and especially with Bay Area CEOs (Hyperloop without even a prototype, Six Californias, Jeb's piffle about global warming being solved from a San Jose garage)

[yurbud]

3. and when someone like that buys politicians, their stupid ideas don't even have to make sense

[LoisB]

2. Creating robots.