AAA Academy

Douglas McArthur, Freda McArthur, Carmen Pierce, and Wilson Pierce

Directors Freda McArthur, Wilson H. Pierce, and their spouses were quite aware of the difficulties facing young people in their community and the larger area of the South Suburbs. They were familiar with the problems as well their causes, and soon began to wonder what they could do to help.

They considered various solutions, but quickly came to the conclusion that solving problems was not the best option. Rather, they concluded that a proactive approach would be much better: not wait for a problem to arise and then solve it, but rather prevent it in the first place.

A synergy quickly developed among these four, combining their individual talents, experience, community involvement. This synergy, combined with their shared deep concern for the quality of children's lives eventually led to the opening of AAA Academy, where their proactive approach filters down from the initial founding of their school, to each individual child enrolled in their academy.