Damn, watching all the kids go from being so hopeful, and seemingly making so much progress, to sitting there having an existential crisis, directionless, and scared hurt my soul, that feeling really sucks to have.
For people who didn't want to watch because it was too long and quite boring at parts I'll give a quick timeline.
Tldr: business man starts private school to take advantage of colleges blindly accepting black kids for the sake of diversity. Guy is allegedly abusive and falsified college letters to make the kids appear like they've done more than they have. Most kids get fucked over, only four graduate.
Black business man starts a private school with alternative teaching methods. That being, you aren't told to do much of anything, it's all up to you to succeed. Rather than be a teacher, the guy who runs the school is more of a motivational speaker, a life coach of sorts. Since colleges are hungry to accept black kids just for the sake of diversity, the college acceptance rates were 100% for any student who graduated.
The school went viral after videos emerged of students celebrating being accepted into ivy league schools.
The popularity of the school exploded, the new york times wrote an article which exposed things, turns out the "teaching" methods are incredibly questionable, he screamed at students a lot, gave lectures where he essentially out casted the underporming students which humiliated them, The stress levels were through the roof, some students even developed stress habits of pulling their hair out.
We later learn the school owner orchestrated little events to make himself look good, such as telling students to call him and ask him questions about math, so he could provide advice and appear hard at work on his time off while the cameras are filming him. He also was accused of assault and abuse. One case went to court.
Then we learn that he was having kids lie and completely fabricate their college letters so they'd have a better chance of being accepted. Such as starting clubs they never started, winning education awards they never won, and fabricating "started from the bottom" black hardship stories. Some Parents started realizing their kids were at a Lower education level than they were when they got in. the end of the documentary, nearly every single senior left the school, and only four students graduated. They were accepted into "top level" schools. The rest say they're directionless, having to go back to high school a grade behind, in debt, and unable to afford college.
ChubbyProlapse t1_is8i4cj wrote
Reply to Accepted (2021) - A school in Louisiana is celebrated for putting traditionally underserved students into Ivy League colleges, but an investigation uncovers its charismatic founder's controversial methods (CC) [01:22:56] by thesecondfire
Damn, watching all the kids go from being so hopeful, and seemingly making so much progress, to sitting there having an existential crisis, directionless, and scared hurt my soul, that feeling really sucks to have.
For people who didn't want to watch because it was too long and quite boring at parts I'll give a quick timeline.
Tldr: business man starts private school to take advantage of colleges blindly accepting black kids for the sake of diversity. Guy is allegedly abusive and falsified college letters to make the kids appear like they've done more than they have. Most kids get fucked over, only four graduate.
Black business man starts a private school with alternative teaching methods. That being, you aren't told to do much of anything, it's all up to you to succeed. Rather than be a teacher, the guy who runs the school is more of a motivational speaker, a life coach of sorts. Since colleges are hungry to accept black kids just for the sake of diversity, the college acceptance rates were 100% for any student who graduated. The school went viral after videos emerged of students celebrating being accepted into ivy league schools. The popularity of the school exploded, the new york times wrote an article which exposed things, turns out the "teaching" methods are incredibly questionable, he screamed at students a lot, gave lectures where he essentially out casted the underporming students which humiliated them, The stress levels were through the roof, some students even developed stress habits of pulling their hair out. We later learn the school owner orchestrated little events to make himself look good, such as telling students to call him and ask him questions about math, so he could provide advice and appear hard at work on his time off while the cameras are filming him. He also was accused of assault and abuse. One case went to court. Then we learn that he was having kids lie and completely fabricate their college letters so they'd have a better chance of being accepted. Such as starting clubs they never started, winning education awards they never won, and fabricating "started from the bottom" black hardship stories. Some Parents started realizing their kids were at a Lower education level than they were when they got in. the end of the documentary, nearly every single senior left the school, and only four students graduated. They were accepted into "top level" schools. The rest say they're directionless, having to go back to high school a grade behind, in debt, and unable to afford college.