Perhaps we can shed light on Rhee's obvious confusion of KIPP and American dollars with the following factoid, also revealed this morning at the Reporter Roundtable: Michelle Rhee pays her children to do their chores . It seems, then, that her insistance on paying children to do the tasks they should be doing already (making their bed, doing their homework, showing up to school) started at home. Not only does this transferance of her own parenting techniques onto the school system contradict her zealous outburst in support of parental choice (especially in regards to the choices made by the Obama or Palin families come January) but I fear that she suffers from an overactive optimism about the application of economies of scale.
