Unlike most school leaders, Ted Morris' days in a high school classroom are still very fresh in his memory.
It was only six years ago that he graduated from School Without Walls at age 16. Now, at 22, he's armed with a freshly minted doctorate degree in education and permission from the state Board of Regents to open a charter high school in Rochester in 2015.
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It will be called Greater Works Charter School, accepting about 100 ninth-graders in its first year and eventually expanding to about 400 students in grades 9-12.
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After graduating from School Without Walls in 2008, Morris got a bachelor's degree at age 18 from Western Governors University, an online college based in Salt Lake City. He then received master's and doctoral degrees from Concordia University near Chicago.
Morris has an educational consulting firm and said he has worked with the Rochester Prep schools, among others. He also helped start three non-profit organizations, he said: Sparq Rochester, a youth arts outfit; Greater Works Education Network, a fledgling statewide charter advocacy group; and Victory Living Christian Faith Center.
Wow - so a guy who got his BA, MA and Ph.D from online schools is going to run his own charter school at the age of 22.
Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch told us she wants to see an "aggressive" expansion of the charter sector across the state in the near term.
Giving a 22 year old with a BA, an MA and a Ph.D from online schools who has no teaching experience but a little consulting experience sure does count as "aggressive expansion" to me.
I'm sure this couldn't go wrong at all, right?
And of course most of the learning at this charter will take place online.
Sure it will
I think I am going to go to Everst College Hood Variant and open up a few of my own. It's easy money baby.
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this kid has not learned the basic needs of life and they want to put this jerk into a leadership role....this is the tisch way of doing...tisch, please please go into oblivion...i remember when mulgrew and goon bloomberg were fighting tisch would come to nyc and say.."my two michaels please you must stop this". well that says it all, no
ReplyDeleteThe more I look, the weirder this story gets. He's been planning this since he was 18.
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It's time for the people of New York to march on Albany, with local and state law enforcement, and arrest her and the cronies for their crimes against the people of our great state.
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