"The fate of our country won't be decided on the battlefield, it will be determined in a classroom."

The quote above is from the new award winning documentary Waiting for "Superman." The film tails a number of proficient students in the criticized American school system. When hearing about studies and information about our school systems, it is mostly an array of statistics. However, some might tend to forget that behind all those numbers and pie charts are stories.

Jalesaa Figueroa, 18, is one of those stories.  Figueroa and her grandmother Damaris Martinez live in North Philadelphia. Even though they receive food stamps and social security,  Figueroa attends Little Flower Catholic High School for girls. This is because Martinez stresses, "education we cannot live without." For three years they have bent over backwards to pay the annual tuition. Figueroa was in danger of having to spend her senior year at a public high school because her and her grandmother could not gather enough to pay tuition. Figueroa organized a fundraiser where her grandmother made home cooked food for guests and Figueroa sang. The fund raiser did not raise as much as hope, but Figueroa has received many checks sent to her school from complete strangers. One check anonymous for $1,000.

While America's schools will continue to be a hot topic, it is stories like these that show on the other end of the dropout rate are the promising future who want no more than a good education.

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