The school pays Braxton two Saturdays a month to work on college applications and gives seniors two periods a week for the college process. Hodge, who describes himself as a mixture of many races, grew up in the South Bronx in poverty, with what he called tremendous family issues. It is very simple. In America, the people who have an education do well. The people who don't have an education don't do well.
Kids learn that very quickly.
On this day, a recruiter from the Rhode Island School of Design is visiting the school. Students file in and shake the recruiter's hand. Simply meeting him sparks ideas and dreams. She resolved to apply. The curriculum of FDA is geared toward college, with high school classes for everyone beginning in eighth grade.