The executive leadership team at Indianapolis Public Schools is steeped in hypocrisy. Nearly every executive in charge has chosen to send their own children to private, charter, or innovation schools—schools they actively promote for their families while denying those same opportunities to the families they are paid to serve. Is there anyone on the IPS leadership team who isn’t sending their kids to elite schools, while making sure your kids don’t get the same opportunity?
- Dr. Aleesia Johnson, Superintendent: Sent her children to Edison School of the Arts, an IPS innovation school.
- Andrew Strope, Deputy Superintendent: Chose CFI, an IPS choice magnet school, for his children.
- Shelby Roby-Terry, Chief Communications & Engagement Officer: Sent her daughter to Herron, a charter school.
- William Murphy, Chief Operations Officer: Originally enrolled his children in Cold Spring, an elite IPS innovation school, but later decided that no school in all of IPS was up to his standards and moved them to private schools.
- Weston Young, Chief Financial Officer: Enrolled his children at Thomas Gregg, an IPS innovation school.
Why do IPS executives feel entitled to privileges they work so hard to withhold from the very community they are supposed to uplift?
The double standard is blatant: they secure the best options for their own, while restricting access for everyone else.
