It is exhausting to hear Ivy Academy repeatedly nitpicked by people who have not spent any quality time at the school with the students and teachers.
Ivy Academy is the first environmental outdoor charter high school in Chattanooga AND Tennessee AND the Southeast. This city should be proud of the efforts of the founders, administrators, board of directors, teachers, parents and students behind Ivy Academy. They have all been willing to "take the path less traveled by" through their support of a vision for a new kind of education and school environment in our community.
Despite this reporter's continuous negative reports documenting the schools bumps in the roads along the way, the school opened its doors this year to a diverse group of 9th graders from all over Hamilton County who were looking for something different - and that is what they got. These students spend more time outdoors in a day than most children today do in a month. Most are excited about learning and school (and these are teenagers, let me remind you, which makes this even more remarkable). And the diversity of students within the school is what we all dream of our community becoming.
There is so much to Ivy Academy that is new and wonderful and exciting - articles like this one just miss the mark entirely.
I encourage readers to make up their own minds about this charter school (www.ivyacademychattanooga.com). It is an extraordinary idea whose time has come - to Chattanooga, of all places!
Please - let's encourage visionaries and new ideas in our town.
School officials worried about Ivy Academy
It is exhausting to hear Ivy Academy repeatedly nitpicked by people who have not spent any quality time at the school with the students and teachers.
Ivy Academy is the first environmental outdoor charter high school in Chattanooga AND Tennessee AND the Southeast. This city should be proud of the efforts of the founders, administrators, board of directors, teachers, parents and students behind Ivy Academy. They have all been willing to "take the path less traveled by" through their support of a vision for a new kind of education and school environment in our community.
Despite this reporter's continuous negative reports documenting the schools bumps in the roads along the way, the school opened its doors this year to a diverse group of 9th graders from all over Hamilton County who were looking for something different - and that is what they got. These students spend more time outdoors in a day than most children today do in a month. Most are excited about learning and school (and these are teenagers, let me remind you, which makes this even more remarkable). And the diversity of students within the school is what we all dream of our community becoming.
There is so much to Ivy Academy that is new and wonderful and exciting - articles like this one just miss the mark entirely.
I encourage readers to make up their own minds about this charter school (www.ivyacademychattanooga.com). It is an extraordinary idea whose time has come - to Chattanooga, of all places!
Please - let's encourage visionaries and new ideas in our town.