By Robert Toporek | President/founder
Recently we received a letter from an inner city school to put 30 computers into the school to create a lab. In this school of the 177 or so kids in the third grade can read, write or do math proficiently In Philadelphia according to greatschools.org
This is the case for the vast majority of elementary schools in Philadelphia. Yet no one has declared a crisis. Each superintendent comes up with plans to improve, the schools, they move personal around; spend millions of dollars on programs that do not work.
Brillkids a company in China has given us over $750,000 worth of learning software that any baby, toddler, kid any age can learn anything they want in just a few minutes. We have distributed over 1,700 copies over the past few years with every computer we distribute.
My son by the time he was one could read over 1,000 words, count to 100 in English and Spanish and identify hundreds of bits of intelligence like president, primates polygons and more..
By the time he was 2 1/2 he could turn a computer on use a keyboard and play reader rabbit, math rabbit language express and every educational game we could find.
Despite my not being a college graduate, his mother passing away when he was 10 he graduated 2 nd in his class from high school at 17. He was one of the first 400 kids accepted early to Georgetown where he majored in English and taught himself journalism. He has been gainfully employed since graduating college using his amazing skills.
The very first computer we distributed helped a kid in one of the worst drug neighborhoods also graduate college.
I HAVE NO DOUBT ONCE WE RAISE THE REMAINING $2000 THESE COMPUTERS WILL HELP THE KIDS IN THIS SCHOOL TRANSFORM THEIR ACADEMIC AND ECONOMIC ACHIEVMENT.
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