I am a student at McCurdy High School and have been for five years. I would like to comment on George Morse’s column (The Mighty Have Fallen, Rio Grande SUN, Nov. 12, 2009, page B1).
McCurdy School has been providing students with a quality education for nearly a hundred years and has saved many lives in the process. This school has been known for sports and will be in the future.
What makes it different from the public schools is that at McCurdy you’re not just a number, you’re a person. When I read this article I felt extremely degraded by what was said about such an important school, and I want people to know maybe sports aren’t everything.
In his column Morse writes, “McCurdy School, athletically and scholastically has really fallen off from when I started working with the SUN in the fall of 2001”
First there is a 98 percent graduation rate, which speaks for itself. Also, last year four students qualified and placed at the International Science Fair. One of those students is currently being inducted into The National Gallery for America’s Young Inventors along with a select few.
This school is extremely important to so many students because it is a safe environment for them to be. Many students come to escape from the drug, alcohol and gang problems and many students’ lives have been changed.
That is the McCurdy School I know, not the one described in Morse’s column.
Lindsay Redman
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