Intense, newly minted loyalty on display: The Summit Sierra charter school pleads for its life and learning

Less than a month’s learning at Seattle’s Summit Sierra High School has generated school loyalty such as to make other schools salivate,  loyalty displayed Thursday as students, parents and teachers at the charter school put on a big, intense, powerful “Keep Our School Open” rally. “The bonds he has made in these short three weeks are, he tells me, more than what he made in the previous three years,” said Kathy O’Neal, whose 14-year-old son Elijah a