SEED: Public Boarding School For Urban Poor
No One Has Pulled Themselves Up By Their Own Bootstraps . . .
Everyone Has A Story About Someone Who Has Helped Them."
-- SEED Faculty Member
Everyone Has A Story About Someone Who Has Helped Them."
-- SEED Faculty Member
Watch "60 Minutes" Videos Below
Byron Pitts gave an update on the SEED boarding schools last night on "60 Minutes" and it would be hard to find a more empathetic reporter on the subject. PItts was not only a stutterer, but also illiterate until age 12, as he revealed in his best-selling book, "Step Out On Nothing", previously covered by The Daily Riff here. He claims an English professor in college "saved his life" and goes on to describe video below how she had nothing to gain by helping him, but did it anyway. (see 2 min. below - Vid #2).
The importance of available and positive adult role models and mentoring opportunities for our youth is the remarkable parallel between the Pitts and SEED stories. One faculty member emphatically clarified that their mission was not just about raising test scores, but about "changing their (students') values".
The importance of available and positive adult role models and mentoring opportunities for our youth is the remarkable parallel between the Pitts and SEED stories. One faculty member emphatically clarified that their mission was not just about raising test scores, but about "changing their (students') values".
Eric Adler and Rajiv Vinnekota created SEED a decade ago from a "brainstorming session