Essay on Maywood Academy To Charter or Not to Charter

To my fellow community and all present here today, we are faced with a problem bigger than we thought it would be, either to go charter or not! What does charter mean to you? To me it means being isolated in a prison ruled by selfish stubborn officials that don’t take our education and our future seriously! Some of us might take it lightly while on others it has a huge impact. I, as a fellow student will not stand for this. I demand for my voice to be heard; not only for myself, but for others too. And together we will prevail. Maywood Academy gives a lot of opportunities too many students that want to succeed in life. With charter, all those opportunities will just go down the drain. Education is a precious thing and should not be†¦show more content†¦All they will do is just bring us down. Charter is treating our school like if we are something to fight over. We aren’t just plain anything, we are a community united. And this is our school! Let’s not be selfish and just think of our generation but the generations after us. Be fair and let them have the same opportunities as we did. But then again, how would I know that my classmates and I will have those future opportunities if we go charter. On the other hand, let us speak our mind and let us be. If we go charter, how will we know if our school will stay the same? Charter means semi-private and semi-public. But how do we know if it’s going to be more private than public. Right now Maywood Academy is part of our community and it is open to the public but if we go charter our school won’t belong to us but to a company that will have the rights to make the rules not knowing whether it will be good for us or bad. We shall not take that risk because we are doing well and if they make the rules there is a chance that they might bring us down. In private schools, special-ed kids aren’t accepted, so how do we know if special-ed kids will be accepted at our â€Å"new† school? Their futures will be lost too! Not only them but kids with problems concentrating in school. How would we know if teachers from charter will have the patience to teach them? If Maywood Academy goes charter there is a big risk of loosing half the staff members and many