Deanna Doles, Columbus
My son has been in charter schools for 4 years now. He started school as an IEP student, and each year was falling more and more behind, he started a charter school in sixth grade, by eighth grade, he increased four grade levels and a lot of confidence, by the time he left middle school he felt successful. The charter school he belongs to, is a home, not just a school. The teacher stay in one on one contact with the student as well as the parents. I will never put him back in a public school, where he will be just a number. Through this program, he also has the opportunity to join ODU while still in high school. The traditional learning is to restrictive and does not allow the student to excel when struggling. With my son being able to learn outside the text book classroom he has excelled.