Grace and Charter Schools

The Arizona Republic has been doing a series of not-so-flattering articles on Charter Schools in Arizona, with regard to some financial abuses. Since Grace will be hosting a Charter School on our new campus I thought I should say something in response.

Instead I'll let Keith, one of our board members, and a recently retired public school principal and board member of the new charter school chime in: (From an email he sent to me):

"The essential issue is that the 'root' problem is not the failure of an externally imposed governmental process...but an individual's lack of morality, ethics, grace, etc. When grace-filled moral characteristics are in place, systems, organizations, and/or society in general 'works.' When things/people/organizations 'work' it's not worthy of news media coverage. Things that work as intended don't generate viewers/readers sufficient to generate advertising. On essential question for Grace therefore is, will Pinnacle Peak Community School be governed by principled, moral, and grace-filled leaders? Knowing the answer to that is what matters."

In answer to his question--the school board is already made up of such people. We are in good hands.