Daily News | Advice for Philly’s new superintendent: Don’t underestimate our students | Jenice Armstrong
As you search for a home here and familiarize yourself with the myriad challenges the Philadelphia School District faces, we need you to keep this in mind: Don’t doubt even for a moment that your future students can and do achieve great things despite the incredible odds stacked against many of them.We need you to be their champion.We need you to set high expectations for all involved and to let them know that the whole city is invested in students’ success.
As you’ve probably heard, Philly has the sauce. It doesn’t get a lot of press, but many of our public school grads go on and do really well in their respective fields. Take what happened in the last week. The world watched as five exemplary Philly public high school grads received their industries’ highest honors for being the best at what they do.
North Philly legend Dawn Staley, a Murrell Dobbins Career and Technical High School graduate, won her second NCAA championship last week and by becoming the first Black head coach of a Division I basketball program, men’s or women’s, to win two national championships., another North Philly homegirl and a graduate of the High School of the Creative and Performing Arts , won not one but two Grammys — for best R&B album forRoots drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, also a CAPA graduate, won both a Grammy for his documentaryand an Oscar for the same project in the same week.
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