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Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools
Alpha School’s success is not just from selection effects.
But even if it were, the question would remain:
Why weren’t these exceptional students allowed to have the same level of success in our public schools?
Niels Hoven 🐮x.comParadoxically, many of these disciplinary policies are akin to the progressive vision espoused by eugenicists like Karl Pearson, justifying harsh discipline as a means to “close academic disparities.” Schooling becomes standardized testing without creative expression, arbitrary rules without room to breathe, Black Excellence without Black Joy.