Current charter school funding is not designed to implement residential education programs.  Boarding schools have a 24-hr a day need for structured activities and supervision  This differentiates it from the 6-hr a day programs typically found at charter schools.  In response to this we have created the Chores Program. Every student commits to (never more than) one-and-a-half hours of school maintenance and/or operational work each day. Chores include tasks such as laundry, food preparation,agriculture, maintenance, tutoring, etc.  Additionally, a large amout of the campus acreage will be planted with fruits and vegetables for the schools use. All students must participate and each will be required to do each of the jobs an equal number of times.  Faculty and staff will regularly engage in these tasks as well.The Chores program gives children the benefit of regular responsibilities and valuable job skills.   Consequently, this also allows the school to reduce the maintenance and support personel we need to hire.