Another article to add to "The SEED Foundation". I hope this place truly helps kids...on paper it sounds wonderful but we all know how that can turn out.
http://www.wlwt.com/r/30263109/detail.htmlFoundation Would Help Fund CPS Boarding SchoolHundreds Of At-Risk Students Would Attend
POSTED: 3:38 pm EST January 20, 2012
UPDATED: 6:22 pm EST January 20, 2012
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CINCINNATI -- Cincinnati schools may offer a boarding school for students from traditionally underserved neighborhoods.
"There are a group of students who just, because of various challenges, cannot go home at night," said Brian Neal, of The SEED Foundation.
The school board will vote Monday on a proposal that would place 80 sixth graders in dormitory housing as they attend college preparatory classes, with a new class added as the initial class moves forward by one grade.
"We can support 400 kids every school year and move the needle in getting them off to college and to be successful in life," Neal said.
The privately funded SEED Foundation operates two boarding schools in Washington, D.C., and Maryland and was featured in the documentary "Waiting for Superman."
"It's the kind of residential education that we would not be able to afford ourselves," said Eve Bolton, of the Cincinnati School Board.
Students who are abused or neglected, whose parents are incarcerated, or who live far below the poverty line are those who might be helped by boarding schools, Neal said.
"These would be the kids that have the greatest amount of burden and challenge emotionally to overcome in order to be individually successful," Bolton said.
The SEED Foundation is searching on the city's west side for a place to build the school, which would require about 10 to 15 acres.
After final approval from the school board and state by this spring, the foundation hopes to begin operating the school next fall.
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JasArriel Fields · Subscribe
so wait. You mean to tell me that if I go to jail or neglect my kid, they can get into a better school. WTH is WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
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---- Amanda Overbey · Top Commenter · Everything at Full Time Mommy!

Yes, you pretty much have to abuse your children to get them a good education. Seems they would focus on making the school systems already in place better.
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Chris Peeks · Cincinnati State
Why not put it over where the old qubec school is that is being torn down that wont be rebuilt?
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