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I'm a white, half-Jewish sophomore girl, and I attend LEP Charter High School. I've gone to a different school every year since sixth grade. I've attended a variety of private and public schools, including a very large public high school. I know what I'm talking about when I say we need schools like LEP. We need unique environments that hit on unconventional topics, that encourage free speech and free thinking. We need enthusiastic, engaging teachers who still possess the initial excitement to teach, who reason with students and speek to them like equals, like the adults they're gearing them to become. We need incredibly diverse student populations, where we are all different but together, where there is no friction between races, where it is truly like a family. We need students who are being taught how to function in this society, in this crashing economy, which was brought into chaos because of human error. We need students who are eager to learn, who came here because they weren't thriving in their previous schools, who are willing to fight for their schools. I've never seen anything like the enthusiasm to keep a school afloat that I've seen in the past week. We need this sort of education. We need students to be exposed to classes called "Leadership", LEP's hallmark, where they're taught how to think beyond convention, where truth and questioning is encouraged, where we're taught how to create a business and be self-reliant, and where the term "escape the Matrix" is commonly used. I cannot, cannot, cannot stress enough how much LEP has benifited me, how much it has benifitied the lives of so many students who would be struggling to tread the waters of mainstream schools, and who would rather drop-out than return to their previous schools. We need an educated, a truly educated generation. We need to support schools like LEP.

Thank you.

posted 3 years, 2 months ago
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