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May 11, 2015 | video | Lex Jurgen | 0 Comments
The principal and founder of a charter school in Georgia got herself in a pickle for calling out ‘black families’ for leaving the school’s graduation early. Nancy Gordeuk founded the TNT Academy in Stone Mountain, Georgia on the inspired notion that you can make good money by providing a social promotion academy for struggling public school kids if you can come up with a super cool name. Gordeuk inadvertently informed the graduation audience that the ceremony was over before the school’s valedictorian gave his speech and quickly hustled to the microphone to call everybody back into the auditorium. For good measure, she threw in a good taunt ‘look who’s leaving early, all the black families’ under the working theory that no publicity is bad publicity. Her school has previously been investigated by Georgia school officials for not conspiring hard enough to cheat on standardized exams like the other schools in the state. Pretending public school works in an urban environment is a team effort. Ultimately, Georgia should consider abandoning primary education and going back to what has worked for them better in the past, folksy wisdom and subsistence living. Nothing wounds like expectations.