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Balere Charter Academy of Party Science? - Fred Grimm - MiamiHerald.com

Balere Charter Academy of Party Science? - Fred Grimm - MiamiHerald.com:

Balere Charter Academy of Party Science?

FGRIMM@MIAMIHERALD.COM

Strip away the bureaucratic constraints suffered by conventional public schools.

Strip away most of the clothes.

And then, as they say down at the Balere Language Academy charter school, “push it to da limmit.”

Balere has certainly pushed the notion of charter schools beyond the usual limits. It requires no more than a cursory examination of material promoting Labor Day doings at the Cutler Ridge kindergarten-through-middle charter to realize no conventional public school would dare attempt this novel, after hours approach to education.

But a brave innovator associated with Balere, with help from those noted educational think tanks Hygh Lyfe Entertainment and Snake Eye Promotions, has created a kind of night school, reaching out to a segment of the community long ignored by traditional educators. “All hustlers, ballers and divas roll out.” (College students get in for half-price. Women are admitted free “B4 12.”)

The school had previously been the venue for at least two other notable all-nighters, billed as the



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