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The Achievement Club

by IBRAM ROGERS , July 9, 2009

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A good-natured and productive culture of competition concerning their academic attainments has surfaced between the boys in Club 2012.

“‘What are you taking next year,’” Carpenter says the boys now ask each other. “‘Well I’m taking honors biology. Well I’m taking AP world history. Oh, I’m taking that too. Well, I will get an A. Oh, well I will get an A too.’”

Club 2012 member Isaac Cook, pictured with parents Kenneth and Wanda Cook, won the sophomore class president election after being encouraged by club parents and a teacher to run.
“The conversations that they now have amongst each other are incredible,” says Carpenter, as after nine years of working on the gap she now hears and sees it closing around her. “They have a brotherhood. And we have become a village and it truly is led by parents.”



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