{"id":336752,"date":"2021-09-09T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jalen-rose-talks-school-choice-and-unions-with-steve-perry\/"},"modified":"2021-09-09T07:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T04:00:10","slug":"jalen-rose-talks-school-choice-and-unions-with-steve-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jalen-rose-talks-school-choice-and-unions-with-steve-perry\/","title":{"rendered":"#Jalen Rose talks school choice and unions with Steve Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Jalen Rose talks school choice and unions with Steve Perry<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Jalen-Rose-Final-web-crop.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Jalen Rose\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Jalen-Rose-Final-web-crop.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Jalen-Rose-Final-web-crop.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Jalen-Rose-Final-web-crop.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Jalen-Rose-Final-web-crop.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Jalen-Rose-Final-web-crop.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Since we\u2019re in back-to-school mode, and I\u2019m fresh off welcoming students back to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jrladetroit.com\/\">Jalen Rose Leadership Academy<\/a> after a year of virtual teaching, I wanted to dedicate an episode of \u201cRenaissance Man\u201d to someone who has inspired me in the education <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. A decade ago, I started my charter school in Detroit. <\/p>\n<p>Previously, I had been giving scholarship money and started an endowment at the University of Michigan, but about 15 years ago, I saw a segment on CNN about education advocate <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drsteveperry.org\/bio\">Dr. Steve Perry<\/a>, founder of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wearecapitalprep.org\/m\/\">Capital Prep charter schools<\/a>, and it would end up changing my own charitable focus. He did it all. He was the founder, the chief fund raiser and the bus driver. A natural disruptor in the education space, he was like Crazy Joe Clark in \u201cLean on Me,\u201d with one exception: He didn\u2019t carry a bat. <\/p>\n<p>I was intrigued. At the time, I was working in Bristol, Conn., so I went to his school in Hartford. We hit it off, and he\u2019s become a mentor and a friend. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Perry is self-made, and his origin story is much like that of the inner-city kids he serves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in public housing,\u201d Dr. Perry told me. \u201cI was born on my mother\u2019s 16th birthday. My father was in prison by the time I was 18 \u2026 You know, I was bad at school. I remember first time somebody in college called me \u2018intellectual.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Yo, say it again.\u2019 I swear \u2014 I thought that they were being disrespectful to me \u2026 I always thought I was unintelligent. I was in Outward Bound when I was in high school. They sent us to this \u2018hoods in the woods\u2019 program, where they send you out and they scare you into like, \u2018This could be your life if you don\u2019t get your life right.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-acast wp-block-embed-acast\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Each One, Teach One ft. Dr. Steve Perry\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/jalen-rose-renaissance-man\/eachone-teachoneft.dr.steveperry#?secret=WcUllw8wJm\" data-secret=\"WcUllw8wJm\" width=\"618px\" height=\"750px\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Connecticut native said he wasn\u2019t a bad kid, but he wasn\u2019t in the best environment. He played sports, but at 5-foot-9 and 145 pounds, he wasn\u2019t going pro. He also had the option of hustling and slinging dope, which included a lot of standing around in the cold, and that didn\u2019t suit him. But, he knew he wasn\u2019t built for the consequences of that life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he was inspired by his mother\u2019s activism in the tenants\u2019 association where they lived. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to do something,\u201d Dr. Perry told himself, assuming it would be politics. He even ran for office, but like Goldilocks trying to find what\u2019s just right, he found the sweet spot in education. And boy, has he made a mark. Not only does Capital Prep now have five schools \u2014 with Dr. Perry <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2021\/03\/10\/sean-diddy-combs-re-opens-bronx-charter-school\/\">opening the latest in The Bronx with Diddy<\/a> \u2014 he is also a consultant to people such as Oprah, Steve Harvey and yours truly. He\u2019s a generational change-maker and a maverick with a lot of grit who has taken on the powers that be.<\/p>\n<p>He is a staunch advocate of school choice, and giving different options other than what kids\u2019 ZIP codes dictates. He said education shouldn\u2019t be a partisan issue, but there is a reality that exists in politics and public education. Most of his students are black and Latino, and most black and Latino politicians are Democrats, who are controlled by the teachers unions. The teachers unions are extremely powerful. And not empowering to the students who most need them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"715\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/steve-perry.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=715\" alt=\"Dr. Steve Perry was inspired by his mother\u2019s activism.\" class=\"wp-image-19392316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/steve-perry.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1430 1430w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/steve-perry.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1073 1072w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/steve-perry.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=715 715w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/steve-perry.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=358 357w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/steve-perry.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\"\/><figcaption>Dr. Steve Perry was inspired by his mother\u2019s activism.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Johnny Nunez<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe unions tell [Democratic politicians] what to do, and they do what they\u2019re told to do almost unilaterally. The teachers union in particular \u2014 which is \u2026 at least 85 percent white and an overwhelmingly female group of people \u2014 they tell the black and Latino politicians what to say, when to say it, how to say it. One of the things that they tell them to say is that they are for \u2018public education.\u2019 They dress this pig up and call it the prom queen, because it\u2019s not public education. It is something that has been  privatized by the teachers union itself. Meaning these white women, for the most part, who live in the suburbs, for the most part, benefit completely off the backs of black and Latino children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most of these politicians, he noted, send their kids to schools of choice, meaning a charter, private or Catholic school.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>He wanted to give every family that choice. And a chance. Even if it was outside the realm of traditional schooling controlled by the teachers union. Athletes get to choose, why not a student who doesn\u2019t run a blistering 40-yard dash?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the NBA, NFL, none of those brothers went to the neighborhood schools, and we think that that\u2019s perfectly fine. We think it\u2019s perfectly fine to send all these kids literally all over the country, hundreds, thousands of miles away from their families just so they can run and catch a ball. Yes, but if that child wants to go to a STEM school in the next town, in the next district \u2026 it\u2019s like, \u2018Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After working on JRLA for this long, I\u2019ve learned that people don\u2019t care what you know until they know how much you care. Dr. Perry treats his students like his own and gives them tough love. He wants them to be well-rounded and have a few skills in their back pockets. One example is former student Andre Drummond, who was drafted ninth overall by the Detroit Pistons in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndre will tell you this \u2026 In his freshman year of high school, like his first four games, he had one point. First time he went to dunk, he fell down. He fell on his back. So he came to [Capital Prep], and I told his mother, \u2018I will treat him as my own. You can rest assured.\u2019 And I remember having a conversation with him and saying, \u2018Son, sorry. I don\u2019t know if this basketball thing\u2019s going to work.&#8217;\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Perry didn\u2019t take Andre under his wing because he thought he was going to be in the NBA. \u201cIt\u2019s because I knew that he\u2019s a beautiful young man who deserves the opportunity to be whatever God makes him to be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/perry.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Andre Drummond was a former student of Dr. Perry.\" class=\"wp-image-19392340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/perry.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/perry.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/perry.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Andre Drummond was a former student of Dr. Perry.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Andre went to the Lakers and is now in Philadelphia with the 76ers, but when he was with the Pistons, he and his mother started supporting JRLA. They are in a completely different city now, but they are still donors, because they have experienced the benefit of school choice firsthand.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Dr. Perry is passionate about kids and learning. But he also is a sharp-dressed, cool dude who\u2019s funny, irreverent and can relate to his student body. He walks their walk and talks their talk. He gets emotional when he watches \u201cLean on Me,\u201d and I imagine he sings \u201cFair Eastside High\u201d in the shower. He also cuts his own hair, which I will never do unless I go bald at some point, which is not in my five-, 10- or 20-year plan. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt goes back to being broke. I needed a haircut,\u201d he said, adding that he\u2019d use his grandfather\u2019s old shaver. \u201cNow, keep in mind, I busted my head a bunch of times. I used my mother\u2019s eyeliner more than a few times.\u201d While a student at the University of Rhode Island, he cut the basketball team\u2019s hair, because in southern Rhode Island there weren\u2019t many black barbers around. So if he ever tires of his charter school calling, he can always fall back on his clippers.<\/p>\n<p>But Dr. Perry is also human. He has his flaws. He can be very controversial. For instance, he thinks Johnny Gill was better in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/10\/10\/new-edition-to-reunite-for-dj-cassidys-pass-the-mic\/\">New Edition<\/a> than Bobby Brown, which is blasphemy. There is no question who was more valuable to the group. So this is where we diverge, but otherwise, I will follow Dr. Perry anywhere: from the tailor to the barber\u2019s chair to the classroom. That\u2019s my guy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Detroit native\u00a0<strong>Jalen Rose<\/strong>\u00a0is a member of the University of Michigan\u2019s iconoclastic Fab Five, who shook up the college hoops world in the early \u201990s. He played 13 seasons in the NBA, before transitioning into a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> personality. Rose is currently an analyst for \u201cNBA Countdown\u201d and \u201cGet Up,\u201d and co-host of \u201cJalen &amp; Jacoby.\u201d He executive produced \u201cThe Fab Five\u201d for ESPN\u2019s \u201c30 for 30\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>, is the author of the best-selling book, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Give-People-What-They-Want\/dp\/0804138907?tag=nypost-20\">Got To Give the People What They Want<\/a>,\u201d a fashion tastemaker, and co-founded the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy, a public charter school in his hometown.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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