Many kids don't fit that mold of the high school setting and they need a lot of additional support or just a different way of learning.

Because of the way we run the school and the wavers we have through the charter school process, we can give them credit, they can catch up and graduate on time.

Kids need to be connected to the school and they need to feel someone cares about them. In a large school setting it can be extremely impersonal. There's nothing worse than a student in a large setting not being connected to anything. That's the height of loneliness.

When a charter school opens up, typically they are inundated with parents who wish to enroll their kids as well as with applications from public school teachers who wish to teach there, ... They have a tendency to grow very fast.

Without this chair, she can't go to school or play with other kids.

My kids were getting to be school age, and I didn't want them exposed to that [atmosphere],