Without him, we would never have been able to be our own state-charter school. He places a high emphasis on education, he talks about it which means the media are writing about it it s a topic on everyone s mind and that makes the school s mission so much easier. Ray Sullivan, a spokesman for the Bush campaign, tells Insight, Governor Bush is a big proponent of charter schools and especially of the KIPP Academy. The governor understands that much of KIPP s success is because the parents and students are energized and it is focused on teaching children in basics, maximizing each educational task. Children need structure and discipline in their learning environment and it can t just be one-sided.
Parents can t just send the children to school and expect the teachers to do it all.
It has to be a partnership. It s as if the kids believe it is okay to fail because they ve been told they have some type of learning disability. Unfortunately, what the parents and kids don t realize is that when the kids become adults, no one is going to care about their learning disability. It s a two-part process. The parents have to be held accountable for their part of the job when the kids get home, and if teachers have discipline and control of their environment in the classroom it s a win-win situation for everyone involved.