I also got the feeling from the article that the methods of the school seem to be contrived to please the metrics used to evaluate them. The high amount of rigo

I also got the feeling from the article that the methods of the school seem to be contrived to please the metrics used to evaluate them. The high amount of rigor seems very Prussian of them, a paradigm is particularly uninterested in teaching kids but instead in disciplining them and making them do well on tests, and more generally in making them comfortable with the future that has been predetermined for them. However, I honestly don't see anything bad about transplanting people from a seemingly negative cultural surrounding to one which is more likely to make them have a more successful and fulfilling life, even if it seems hostile to parents and condescending to poor neighborhoods.