Switzer also shares her emotions upon hearing about a victory at the West Virginia Supreme Court and how she can use the funds to customize her school-age children’s education.Īn entrepreneur herself, Switzer talks about establishment of her forest school for young children and their parents to learn about science and nature. She recalls the fear she felt about having her name on the appeal and how she refused to let her kids attend their local public schools during that time to avoid any possible retribution from Hope opponents. She also recalls the day that the circuit judge granted a permanent injunction shutting down the Hope Scholarship program and the “chaos” that resulted from families who were left scrambling for alternatives with about a month before classes were set to resume. Switzer also shares the story of her second child, Ruth, who has apraxia of speech and dyslexia, benefited from therapies that she can now use Hope Scholarship funds to pay for. Va., that her children’s school district, which was ranked third in the state, delivered results that were worse than the middling schools she attended. She says how she was shocked to learn after moving to Morgantown, W. Switzer talks about her own experience in public schools in New York, which she described as “middle of the pack” in terms of quality metrics.
I think the answer is just to change the system so that we can give public schools flexibility so they don’t have to be these big, one-size-fits-all classrooms and these huge buildings and kids who have ADHD and don’t fit in get lost because they don’t want to deal with them.” “My dream is not to get rid of public schools. In January, the Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy honored Switzer as its Advocate of the Year for education choice. They were represented by the Institute for Justice, a national non-profit public interest law firm that supports giving parents the opportunity to choose the best educational fit for their children. Switzer, founder of a part-time forest school for families, and another parent were intervenors in the appeal of the circuit judge’s ruling.
On this episode, reimaginED senior writer Lisa Buie talks with Katie Switzer, a soon-to-be-mother of five who played a key role in helping overturn a court ruling that shut down West Virginia’s new Hope Scholarship program about a month before schools were set to re-open for the 2022-23 academic year.
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