Johnson: Birmingham’s year-round school proposal is right on time, what about the rest of y’all?
Updated Feb 09, 2021;
Posted Feb 09, 2021
A STAIR of Birmingham tutor sits with a student. The literacy program started in Birmingham in 2000. (Shauna Stuart for AL.com)
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This is an opinion column.
Brilliant. That’s what we want all our children to be; I think we can agree on that. As brilliant as they can be. As equipped as they need to be to accomplish what their skills, passion, and focus allow them to pursue.
This was my thought, too: Finally.
Finally, a district with the fortitude to do what long should have been done not just by BCS, but by districts throughout a state that’s lagged at or near the bottom of the nation so long we’ve essentially failed a generation, and many of their parents before them.