Since we have no experience in charter schools here, I can only state what works for my grandchildren in California. The advantages they receive by having community, parents and teachers reaching for the highest standards in education, the children thrive. They are active in every facet of learning from theater to advanced reading and math. There is friendship between all of the families with the emphasis on growing leaders and happy, well-adjusted, world-oriented adults. Since our education system is lacking in Washington, why not study the outcome of other states that do allow charter schools?

-- Sandy Stroben, Kennewick