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This Inner-City High School Is Run By The Students. The Result Is A Near-Perfect Graduation Rate

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Post by Guest Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:27 pm

St. Benedict's Preparatory School in Newark, New Jersey, is a high school unlike any other.


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The school, filled with inner-city youth, is run by those very students.
Benedictine Monk Edwin Leahy has been associated with the school for most of six decades as student, teacher and now the headmaster. At the core of the school's idea is empowering kids, many of whom had no control over their lives. They make decisions on activities and rules. And if they make bad decisions, "That's a better learning experience for them. The rule typically is if you're going to make a decision without adult advice you had better be right," says Leahy.
Empowering the students has led to a 98 percent graduation rate!

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Post by Ben Reilly Thu Apr 14, 2016 10:44 pm

People who have ownership in what they do always do a better job. Too bad the authoritarian impulse is to take away any power they have, since it's threatening to authoritarians for anyone to have power besides themselves.
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Post by eddie Thu Apr 14, 2016 11:12 pm

Do you think that would work in same-sex schools though? Bunch of hormonal bitchy girls.....testosterone arm-wrestling boys.....could be pure anarchy.
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