Public Education Foundation - Partners for Strong Schools

Quotes

"While participating in this summer program, I learned a valuable lesson. I realized that everyone was not the way I perceived him or her to be. I learned to cope with people who are different than me."

—DuJuana E., Center for Creative Arts

 

"In this program I experienced many new things that I would have never found at home. The one thing that was hard to do was leave. Departing from Yale’s campus was the hardest thing for everyone to do. There were so many tears that the streets of New Haven, CT were flooded."

—Bleshette M., The Howard School

 

"I never knew how fast peole could become like family until my experience at Penn State.  Those girls that I met at Penn State I will never forget; I keep in contact with them at least once a week and the best thing of all, we have a shirt that we are sending around kind of like the sisterhood of the traveling pants.  I am still so close to them and I cannot wait until next summer when I can travel up to Jersey and spend a couple of weeks with them."

Ashlyn Y., Ooltewah High School

 

"Have you ever wondered about how harmful the ingredients in your favorite snacks can be?  Most people think that if products are available to all customers they are not harmful.  At least that's what I thought until I went to SSSEP, and took a two week course called Truth in Advertising....This course taught me so many things in two short weeks....I realized that I loved doing research on various foods, drinks and household items and now have a desire to become a dietitian in college."

Olga K., East Hamilton High School