{"id":722,"date":"2010-03-01T10:52:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=722"},"modified":"2017-11-30T12:03:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T17:03:27","slug":"tough-love-from-the-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"Tough Love from the Principal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Steve Perry<\/p><\/div>\n

For too long the education system has fostered\u00a0schools that are failing and according to Steve Perry, principal and education activist, failure is no longer an option.<\/p>\n

“We can’t call a school a school if it doesn’t educate,” he says. “We have to create schools that are designed to be successful.”<\/p>\n

Perry gave a\u00a0lecture Saturday at Bethany Baptist Church that was\u00a0 sponsored by the Say Yes to Education<\/em> program.\u00a0 He heads\u00a0 Hartford Prep (CT)\u00a0and\u00a0was featured on the CNN series Black in America 2<\/em> with Soledad O’Brien.\u00a0 Perry\u00a0has also been interviewed often by New Inspiration for the Nation’s George Kilpatrick.<\/p>\n

For Perry\u00a0education is a calling, not just a profession. He drives several of his students to school each\u00a0day and says 100% of the students at Capital Prep\u00a0go on to college.<\/p>\n

Perry\u00a0says that he has no problem getting this across to his staff, and\u00a0because you have a degree doesn’t mean you are a teacher. “I’ve fired some great people, they just weren’t good teachers,” he said.<\/p>\n

Citing the McKinesey Report, Perry said that a child without an education will be a challenge for society. He said parents, teachers and entire community’s share responsibility for schools that don’t work.<\/p>\n

“I love kids too much to care about grown people’s feelings.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For too long the education system has fostered\u00a0schools that are failing and according to Steve Perry, principal and education activist, failure is no longer an option. “We can’t call a school a school if it doesn’t educate,” he says. “We have to create schools that are designed to be successful.” Perry gave a\u00a0lecture Saturday at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,20,84],"tags":[752,818,822,26,73,817,744,819,820,566,386,816],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22909,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/22909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}