Letters

To the Editor:

In response to Carole Boston Weatherford's Commentary, "An Overnight Solution," (March 8, 2000), why limit the idea of a boarding/residential school to just charter schools? Why can't Ms. Weatherford's idea be expanded to all public schools when extreme underachievement warrants trying a whole new approach?

While the author may feel that the concept of charter schools is the only area of innovation in public education, we should not make the idea of charter schools the nexus of this discussion. Certainly, the idea of seeking very different strategies is more than warranted. A one-size-fits-all model of public education is not able to address the many faces of student achievement...