KIPP’s Teaching Demands are Stringent

This is the continuation of my previous post regarding a local KIPP school.  If you haven’t had a chance to read that, it is located here. In this KIPP school, it’s hard work for the teachers too.  They promise to follow through on returning phone calls and e-mails. All KIPP schools are designed to prepare […]

Lack of Support for Teachers

Jane Bowman, a teacher who taught at Butler Middle School with me for a few years, recently wrote a letter to the Florida Times-Union in which she states the following: “A recent letter writer supportive of Duval County Superintendent Ed Pratt-Danals (pictured here) blames parents of the intervene schools for students’ poor attendance and behavior […]