Comments on: Charter school legislation clears Senate

By: mikebiggs

mikebiggs — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:51:00 +0000

First, I would like to apologize to you and the other readers for my misspellings. I now know what it must be for a person without sight to leave their cane at home and have to navigate in an unfamiliar room. I know you are not aware that I am dyslexic. I spent three years in special education, graduated at the bottom of my class, and then fluked out of college. Well, after much help I was able to earn an AA, B.S., and at the end of August my Masters. A woman by the name of Joyce Leary taught me how to memorize words for essay test that my brain would erase very soon after.
I must admit, I was embarrassed that I allowed myself to leave my cane at home. This is what I will call spell check for the rest of my life. I heard every voice from my past that said I did not belong in education. However, I heard the voices of thousands of kids whom I have inspired, not by what I can do (spell) but by what I can never be able to do (spell), .I will include your response in my book. I hope that this will inspire thousands more. They will know how to respond if they some how forget their cane and stumble.

By: jsm

jsm — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:03:04 +0000

Biggs, you must be kidding. I would think you would have to know how to spell and use correct grammar to found a charter school.

By: mikebiggs

mikebiggs — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:23:04 +0000

As the founder of the first charter school from scratch charter scoll in the state of Ga located in Talbotton,Ga., this is walcome progress. i have recently submitted three proposals based on this modle. I am still amazed at how adverseral the charter process is with local boards. Hopefully this will allow Ga to move more in the direction of true school choice.

By: Old School Politics

Old School Politics — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:46:51 +0000

I think Casey is on to something with this Career Academy initiative. Finally an elected official that realizes we need to be promoting career and technical education vs. all students must go to college. While college will always be the ultimate goal its important to have a realistic understanding that more kids in Georgia are not going to go to college. If we focus on initiatives like this our graduation rates are going to go up