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Charter schools aren't the answer to state's education problems

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In the mid-1990s, two issues that captured my attention were bullying and increasing the number of counselors in elementary schools. I urged my fellow PTA members attending Legislative Assembly to make “my issues” the Washington State PTA’s priority issues.

Why were they my issues? In sixth grade, I experienced having my head slammed repeatedly into a concrete bathroom floor during school. While a teenager, my mother broke my nose. I left home in my sophomore year. My grandmother became my legal guardian and then unexpectedly died.

While finishing high school and working part time, I became an emancipated minor. Using current terminology, you would have called me an “at-risk” student.

Today’s stressed-out “at-risk” students are often shared as data points on graphs. They are labeled

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