my own mentee, left kipp. i sort of pushed back with the folks that i met with, and talk a little bit about that, and about discipline policies at kipp. there are certain things about kipp i do not fully agree with. but there are things in our public schools i do not wholly agree with either. there are things we do in our own public schools that actually work against the students that kipp service, against them getting an equitable education. i also spoke to some parents who, quite frankly, when their kids work at middle school -- it was that excels your middle school. -- excelsior middle school. he lost almost a whole year of construction. i think we will admit it was the very unorganized year. we opened it, i think, with excelsior middle school. the child was really far behind. i spoke to the mom. we wanted to look at kipp. her son repeated a grade, but is on track to graduate. this was a single mom with four kids. she had seen older ones lost to violence and drugs. i have to say this way is my opinion, -- s

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