Ian Rowe: We’re Handicapping Children With Victimhood Narratives Instead of Teaching Them How to Succeed
American Thought Leaders
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🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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“If you say that there’s structural racism, institutional racism, systemic racism, then I have to insist on one other kind of racism. And that is surmountable racism,” says Ian Rowe, co-founder of Vertex Partnership Academies, a new network of character-focused, International Baccalaureate high schools in the Bronx.
Prior to this, he was CEO of the Public Prep charter school network for ten years.
“What we owe to young people is to tell them the truth about those behaviors that are far more correlated to success: education, work, faith, family formation, usually marriage before children,” Rowe says.
Last year, New York’s state and city teachers unions sued to block the creation of his new school system. But less than a week before the school was set to open, Rowe’s legal team won a decisive victory.
All students at Vertex Partnership Academies take a special course called Pathways to Power.
“There are no victims in our school, only architects of their own lives,” Rowe says.
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| 0:00.0 | If you say that there's structural racism, |
| 0:03.1 | institutional racism, systemic racism, |
| 0:06.6 | then I have to insist on one other kind of racism. |
| 0:10.2 | And that is surmountable racism. |
| 0:14.2 | Today's sit down with Ian Rowe. |
| 0:16.0 | He's the co-founder of Vertex Partnership Academies, |
| 0:19.3 | a new network of character-focused |
| 0:21.8 | international baccalaureate high schools in the Bronx |
| 0:24.7 | that feature a very special course called Pathways to Power. |
| 0:28.4 | What we owe to young people is to tell them the truth |
| 0:32.0 | about those behaviors that are far more correlated to success. |
| 0:37.0 | Last year, teachers unions in New York |
| 0:39.2 | sued to block the creation of this new school system, |
| 0:42.2 | but less than a week before the school was said to open, |
| 0:44.9 | Ian Rowe's legal team won a decisive victory. |
| 0:47.9 | There are no victims in our school, |
| 0:50.4 | only architects of their own lives. |
| 0:53.2 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Janja Kelley. |
| 0:55.8 | Before we start, I'd like to take a moment |
| 1:03.5 | to thank the sponsor of our podcast, American Heartford Gold. |
| 1:07.8 | As you all know, inflation is getting worse. |
| 1:10.6 | The Fed raised rates for the fifth time this year, |
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