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North Carolina: Roots and Fruits

July 21, 2017 Staff
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Tobacco and North Carolina were nearly synonymous for the better part of the 20th century and my parents both grew up on tobacco farms, my mother in Surry County and my father in Jones County. 

Both excelled in high school. Both were first generation college students, yet their paths to college were different. 

My father was 1 of 11 children with older bothers and sisters blazing the trail off the farm to college, all motivated and encouraged by my grandparents, neither of whom were formally educated beyond 8th grade. He attended Davidson College and later UNC-Chapel Hill earning degrees Law and Public Health. 

My mother was 1 of 2 and only made it to college at the suggestion and urging of a high school guidance counselor without whose counsel she probably would have graduated from high school and remained on the farm. She attended Guilford College majoring in education but would later work for the prison system and then become a computer programmer and database guru. 

While these paths to higher education are very different they reflect the seed, root, and soul of what it is to be a North Carolinian, seeing potential and sowing it the fertile soil of education.

What we must not lose in North Carolina is the belief that this potential is in every child and that we are morally bound to keep the soil fertile, to invest our blood, sweat, and tears in  the future, and tend the earth from which we ourselves emerged. 

Roots to fruits.

In Education Tags education, north caorlina

KIPP Eastern North Carolina

June 7, 2017 Staff
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In 2005 I had the privilege of visiting KIPP Gaston, in the legendary peanut field in rural Northampton County. I immediately accepted an invitation to join the board. 

After a couple years on the board, I stepped off, only to return in 2009 again as a board member, then as interim Chief Operating Officer for the KIPP in eastern North Carolina.

Fast forward to 2016 and after a few years running a challenge, turned hobby, turned business, I decided that my passion was public education and insuring that it be the vehicle of opportunity it was intended to be.

In Education Tags education, KIPP