1. Chapter. 9 Marita’s Bargain
“All my friends now are from KIPP”
Ryan McDonald, Trevor Nicholson, Pasha Sarmast, Tomas Shulman

2. Journal entry #10
If you were born into poverty, and were given a chance to get out and go to college at the price of most of your free time, would you?
Write down your daily school routine… wake up time, how long it takes to get to school, end of school time… left over time

3. Class discussion: What answers did you give?
If you answered yes, then you are eligible for a KIPP school

4. Quizlet

5. Section 1: What is KIPP?
KIPP is a middle school that opened in New York during the mid- 1990s.
Must be in 4th grade to be eligible for entry; there are no entrance exams or admissions, students are chosen from a lottery
It was designed to help children from poor areas get a better education and more opportunities
KIPP is most famous for its mathematics

6. Section 2: KIPP school backgrounds

7. Section 3: Class Divide
Graph shows study done by sociologist Karl Alexander on the gain in test score averages per year based on socio-economic level
Students from poorer areas made less progress each year than students from high income areas
Students from low income areas cannot afford summer school programs
Children from lower socio-economic areas have less opportunity to gain and retain knowledge

8. Section 4: Schedule
Start school at 7:25am and do thinking and skills course until 7:55am
90 minutes of math and English every day, and 2 hours everyday in 5th grade
An hour of science and social science
An hour of music at least twice a week
An hour and 15 minutes of orchestra
School ends at 5:00pm
After school activities/classes can last until 7:00pm

9. Section 5: Marita
Only child to single parent, mother never went to college. They share a one bedroom apartment
Gets up at 5:45am everyday
Gets home around 5:30pm and starts homework shortly after
Homework usually takes 2-3 hours, sometimes more
Eats dinner while doing homework unless her mum makes her eat dinner together
Gets in bed by 11pm
Sometimes falls asleep in the afternoon because she is tired

10. Section 6: Future
Most of Marita’s friends are from KIPP. Because of all of the work she has to do, she doesn’t have enough time to play with friends after school
KIPP gives kids from poor areas a chance to get out of poverty, with the cost of free time and a normal childhood
84% of students get to or above their grade level in mathematics
90% of students get scholarships to private or parochial high schools
80% of KIPP graduates go to college

11. Story of the KIPP program