St Benedicts of New Jersey...

[Asclepias]

Should this be the model of all public schools?

I knew about this school because they are a power house in high school basketball. However, last night on 60 minutes I saw another side to this school. In addition to having a power house basketball team they also have a power house soccer team. The school is primarily made up of Black and Latino inner city youth. Most importantly they graduate 98% of their students from high school and of those 98% that graduate 85% obtain a college degree. The students are required to take a leader ship role in running the school and the results speak for themselves.

St. Benedict's empowers students and sees results

 

[Penelope]

Anything to keep the inner city kids off of drugs and out of gangs I'm in favor of. I saw it as well and while it might be a bit like basic training, as long as it does not go overboard, I think its great.

 

[Asclepias]

Anything to keep the inner city kids off of drugs and out of gangs I'm in favor of. I saw it as well and while it might be a bit like basic training, as long as it does not go overboard, I think its great.

It makes you wonder how is it that somebody that knows nothing about education could pull off such a feat when we have people that supposedly study education that cant get it done. It hit home for me on two fronts.

 

[Sunni Man]

Simple answer........the NEA teacher's union isn't involved. .....