I hated KIPP.
When I graduated in 2003, I was set free. I was no longer attached to the contract I had signed three years before. I no longer had to step on campus at 7:15am each morning, leave at 5pm each evening, attend saturday school, summer school….ahhhhhh! I was set free.
But now that I’m in college, I can look back and see that I WAS set free…intellectually.
I hated KIPP, but the million doors of opportunities it opened has made me realize how blessed I am for having spent three years there.