Remedial reading, remedial ‘riting and remedial ‘rithmatic characterize the present educational system in America.

John F. Kennedy said, “Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.” Thinking like Kennedy, a renowned psychologist Jean Piaget said, “The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.”

A good teacher is the heart of any school system. “The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior,” said Marva Collins, a renowned educator of the civil rights era. “When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.” Adding to this belief, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.”

Kennedy said, “A child miseducated is a child lost.” In like manner, Francis Bacon said, “A man is but what he knoweth.”

If charter schools will make the above quotes by famous people a reality, then charter schools are the demand to poor or failing schools. The reputation of America being “the best half-educated country in the world” could just possibly be reversed with the advent of charter schools.

Flora Caldwell

Jackson