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Ohio's school funding system is still unconstitutional and many of our charter schools questionable. There are, however, definite positives to trying out new ideas in the classroom.
One concept getting attention is a Cleveland charter school that utilizes Alzheimer's patients as reading tutors.
"I was really down in the dumps about the whole thing. There was a time that I hated to go down to dinner because I just couldn't talk to people. It was awful."
For a while she stopped going to the dining hall. Two things lifted her from that despair: a support group for people dealing with memory loss and her volunteer work at the Cleveland school.
"The kids, you know, we always find a lot of things to laugh about," says Hardesty. "Just having kids around has always been very good for me, so it was good thing."
