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As the founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, I've spent decades working with parents and educating students from underserved communities. Too often, I see parents putting so much energy into teaching their kids to act responsibly, clean their room, or do their homework. All of that is important, but there's one thing that many of us are completely forgetting about: how to enjoy life. Sure, that seems like one thing kids do naturally. There's a difference between enjoying life as a young child and being prepared to enjoy life as an adult.
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Eric Adams Fails a Charter-School Test
  + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Mayor Eric Adams had a big test this week of his commitment to excellent public schools for New York City school children. He flunked. On Tuesday and Wednesday the city’s Panel for Educational Policy was scheduled to vote on proposals to co-locate three new Success Academy charter schools—two in Queens and one in the Bronx—in unused space in existing public schools. Since the mayor appoints 13 of the panel’s 23 voting members, Mr. Adams should have been able to get the “yea” votes for a majority. But on Monday schools chancellor David Banks cited feedback from “community members” that co-location would create “significant challenges.” He means the teachers union objected.
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