Dear Erin Dudley Forbes Charter School Parents and Steudents:      

            This handbook is designed to provide you with information that you and your child will need to know to understand your role as a student or parent at EDFCS. Please review it carefully and refer to it throughout the school year.

            Welcome to Erin Dudley Forbes Charter School (EDFCS). You will find teachers and all staff at Erin Dudley Forbes are totally dedicated and committed to providing a quality education while making certain each of you feels at home. We need to work together to accomplish our goal to improve the academic and social achievement of all students.

             EDFCS is a great place to learn. Please join us as we work cooperatively to build a solid foundation on which “our children” can grow socially, emotionally, creatively, and academically. I am looking forward to an exciting and productive year.

            

             Please plan to join the Parent Organization and volunteer to help with one (or more) of the exciting activities that are planned for our students this year.  Our parent organization monthly meetings are the second Tuesday @ 6:30pm unless other wise noted.

            In today’s society the bar is often shifting.  This imaginary bar that is present in all life represents poverty, homelessness, hungry, illness, lack of education and selfishness.  I also equate the shifting bar to contradictions in our lives.  The shifting bar reminds me how short life is.  When I think about EDFCS and the shifting bar I reflect on the young lives we touch each and everyday.  I believe as a school focused on the whole child and the whole family. Our job is to keep the shifting bar still, consistent so everyone has the opportunity to achieve.  With a consistent bar we can keep our learners young and innocent, free from other’s people’s values.  In schools today the shifting bar represents prejudice, violence, bullying, fighting, and miseducation.  The shifting bar is non existent at EDFCS and we take pride in creating an environment where the shifting bar is non existent and if it does appear we discuss the issue and use corrective action to alleviate the problem.  So, parents when your child says, “I want to go to a bigger school” or I want to wear regular clothes.”  Or “We do to much work at EDFCS” visualize the shifting bar and ask yourself is this the type of environment you desire or even deserve for your child.

 

Sincerely,

Lenetta Raysha Lee, Ph.D.

Founder / Chief Academic Officer