Elementary School
The school that Sam attended K-5
What is Dora Moore?
First middle school Sam attended
What is Dora Moore for 6th & 7th grade?
First high school Sam attended
What is East High School?
Technical college that Sam attended
What is Emily Griffith Technical College?
The reason Sam wanted to go back to school
He wasn't happy in his life and wanted to do something he felt like he could be proud of.
Sam's favorite subject in elementary school
What is math?
Second middle school Sam attended
What is Cheyenne Wells Middle School for 8th grade?
Second high School Sam attended
What is Emily Griffith High School?
What is Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?
What held Sam back from going to school for so long?
He was afraid that history would be doomed to repeat itself and he would end up failing and dropping out.
A way Sam struggled in elementary school
His parents divorced during this time.
A way that Sam struggled in middle school
His mom started drinking a lot and his dad moved 3 hours away.
The way Sam ended his high school career
What is by dropping out in 2014-15?
The year Sam finished his technical college program
He didn't. He was suffering from depression at the time, and after failing the last class twice, he could no longer gather the motivation or money to finish, so he dropped out in 2019.
What made Sam want to be a teacher
He had a hard time in high school and remembers how, despite his love of learning and being in school, he was not able to succeed due to the lack of support from the people around him, and he wants to be someone who can offer that support for students who may be in similar situations.
Sam's general performance in elementary school
He was always near the top of his class in everything except writing.
Sam's general performance in middle school
Still above average generally, but teachers and others who knew me definitely noticed a decline.
One of the reasons Sam dropped out of high school
Life at home was bad, and he did not have the support needed to succeed at the time.
When Sam got his GED
2020 while concurrently enrolled at Emily Griffith Technical College.