Staff Testimonial I cannot produce scores for you that reach AYP, but I can show you sixteen-year old students who read on a third-grade level in August and read on a sixth-grade level in March. Our math scores won't necessarily push us into safe harbor, but I can show you a canoe built by middle school charter students that can. I say, "Give me your green-haired children, your paranoid schizophrenics, your cuss-word chanters and your rap song singers. Bring on your desk bangers and gum chewing, detention skipping, 'f-you Ms. Simmons', extra-sleepy-today children." You'll find all this and more at my charter school, but most importantly you will find individual success stories that compare to none! You will find a dedicated team of staff that not only come to work every day; they come to play and enjoy themselves and share what they've learned with their students. Sure, we complain about the down sides and at any given point you can hear someone sighing, but in the evening when we're told to leave our work at work, there are teachers staying late preparing individual lessons for each and every student...there is an undeniable good thing happening here. (Mrs. Simmons, Leadership Center)