We believe the Hamilton County Schools district is trying to turn things around in its Opportunity Zone schools, but many parents whose children would attend the low-performing schools don’t want to wait.
For such a reason, The King School at Olivet Baptist Church is being birthed.
The school, a partnership between the large church and 50-year-old Chattanooga Christian School, will launch this fall with one kindergarten and one first-grade class but eventually will be a K-5 private school.
The desire for school choice is the same reason Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy and Chattanooga Preparatory School (for boys), both public charter schools, were created.
For too long, in general, parents of students in struggling schools who couldn’t afford to send their children to private academies have been told to stay the course. They were told charter schools, pilot projects and voucher bills only took money out of the public schools, and that open enrollment was out of the question. All of those would only make things worse, they were told.