Choosing Success for your Child

By Dr. Reginald Barr, Superintendent

Choice dominates our lives.  Each of us is faced with comparing new products, making decisions about purchasing almost everything, selecting music for listening, planning investments and choosing educational programs for our children. The world has become an open marketplace, requiring expert knowledge to skillfully consume products and services.

The impact of choice in education is obvious. Ten years ago students were assigned to a public school by a home address. Private school opportunities were reserved for the well to do. Now there are traditional public schools, independent public charter schools, district affiliated alternative schools, corporate managed public charter schools, private schools accepting public vouchers for tuition and the traditional private or parochial school. There are online schools, virtual schools and opportunities for dual enrollment in high school and community college.

Choice is a valued tool, providing educational opportunity. The message is clear for educating children. A variety of options must be available for children to survive and thrive in this competitive global environment. Parents must understand the breadth of choices to find a “good match” for their child’s schooling.

Choice is the order of the day. In order to provide personalized programs that recognize individual qualities and potential, parents, students and educators are empowered to partner for the future. Leaders of AmeriSchools understand that no one can continue to look at any student as a number, but an opportunity to expand educational options, easing limitations, and make choices accessible to every parent and child. 

AmeriSchools is a tuition-free charter system of schools that offer safe and exciting learning communities for children in grades K-12. Our mission is to assist children to achieve academic excellence through individualized instruction of core curriculum supported by enrichment and acceleration techniques

We learn in school that every snowflake is unique.

Each is individual and has it's own beauty; it's own design and symmetry. No two are exactly alike. Our children are no different. Their uniqueness requires constant attention, both at home and through the task of education. To this end, the AmeriSchools Academy, realizing and celebrating the uniqueness of our students, is dedicated to providing the best choices for each individual child's future.