"If that was your child, what would you want them to do?"

When making decisions for students, I truly believe our leadership teams strives to do what's best for students. We are willing to sacrifice adult comfort for student achievement. We have made some adults upset, but for the right reasons. It is hard to stay angry with us -- though some are doing a great job -- when we can show them (research, data, etc.) that the decision was done based on what's best for the student. 

Fair is not equal. I promise every parent of every one of our students that we will not treat their children equally. We will give them exactly what they need, deserve, earned, and it will look differently than all other students. We are willing to be unpopular, very, very unpopular. 

"On some positions, Cowardice asks the question,

'Is it safe?'

Expediency asks the question, 

'Is it politic?'

And Vanity comes along and asks the question,

'Is it popular?'

But Conscience asks the question 

'Is it right?'

And there comes a time when one must take a position that

is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it

because Conscience tells him it is right."

-- Martin Luther King, 1968