Amos Brown Why IPS Parents Rebuff MindTrust Plan

(1) Adoption of a culture of respect. Far too many in IPS (teachers, administrators and other staff) exhibit an attitude of superiority over parents and the community.
(2) A parents bill of rights and responsibilities.
(3) Discipline in some IPS schools is a major issue. It’s time to get serious about that as well as truancy, which IPS woefully enforces, receiving no support from IMPD or the sheriff.
(4) We live in an iPad, digital, visual, texting soci ety. Yet many IPS classes still rely on 19th century teaching models. The Mind Trust ignores creating new styles of teaching that motivate students resistant to cur rent teaching methods.
1. I think the plan discussed how each autonomous school leadership would determine what is best.
(5) Thousands of recent IPS graduates attend Ivy Tech Community College and the area’s for-profit, post- secondary institutions. The blue-collar character of the IPS area demands a rigorous, modernized vocational curriculum preparing students for 21st century, high-tech, blue-collar jobs. IPS must have the curriculum to appeal to non-college-bound students.
(6) The Mind Trust argues that for IPS to succeed, most of its schools should be transformed into charters. Yet, charters have the same spotty record as IPS. Some great schools, some so-so schools, some atrocious schools.
1. MindTrust argues all schools: traditional public, charter public and private schools should have the same legal disgnation of Opportunity School which is a quality standard.
STABILITY AND QUALITY are what IPS residents want from their public schools. Maybe when school reformers understand that, we’ll have an IPS reform discussion that engages all the IPS community.•

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