I came across the The SEED School a year ago. I’d love to work for these guys. They started the first and only urban boarding school. It is located in S.E. DC and from what I understand, admission is based on lottery and not test scores. I love the fact that it is located in the community. I hated seeing what prep for prep did to some of my classmates in college. I think this approach is spot on. I know too many kids that grew up in the Marcy Projects but went to Andover or Choate and then a potted ivy. They never quite got comfortable. I always felt as if they were rootless. Absolutely nothing wrong with a kid from the PJs going to Exeter. I just hate the modern myth that to “save” our promising minorities requires extracting them from their communities and delivering them to safety, like the Delta Force rescuing a P.O.W.

I look forward to learning more about SEED.

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