I know what is possible. There are 800 African-American students out of 40,000 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and my son and daughter are two of them.
~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Kelwyn" <ravena...@...> wrote: > > http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/happynews/ct-met-urban-prep-college-20100305,0,3299917.story > > Four years ago, Bryant Alexander watched his mother weep. > > She stared down at a muddle of D's and F's on his eighth-grade report card > and threatened to kick him out. He had barely passed elementary school, and > high school wasn't even on his radar. > > "Something just clicked," Alexander, now 18, said. "I knew I had to do > something." > > On Friday, Alexander proudly swapped his high school's red uniform tie for a > striped red and gold one the ritual at Englewood's Urban Prep Academy for > Young Men that signifies a student has been accepted into college. >
