The following remarks are excerpted from student letters. These highlight student circumstances and the powerful impact of Helping High.
Selected Excerpts
Click on an excerpt below to read more:
- The coat will keep me warm
- Before the quarter ends
- Last school year grades
- Thinking back on the things
- The incentive program
- Mr. Hawley thank you
- My mom was abused
- I remember
- My mother passed
- I live
- I didn’t start
- I grew up
- I would like
- My dad and I
- I ended up running away
- I have two jobs
- My living situation
I grew up in the nasty ghetto outside Dallas Texas. It wasn’t an easy life, my parents were meth addicts.My mom would sell all of my stuff while I was at my friend’s or she would trade it for meth. I was eleven the first time I smoked meth. I have been here for three years and got my first winter coat today.”