Ivy Leaguer Says Don't Trash Allentown Schools
Allen High's 2010 valedictorian says district prepared her well for a Princeton education.
When Tess Bernhard worked as a cashier at Wegmans in Allentown, customers would sometimes ask her where she went to school. “I would have people take steps away from me when I admitted I went to Allen [High], ” she told me. Yet, remarkably, she was never in a fistfight and has no visible gang tattoos. In fact, she says she never felt in danger at the school and had some very dedicated teachers, including those who challenged her in the 11 Advanced Placement courses she took. “They really encouraged anybody to challenge themselves,” said Bernhard, who was Allen’s Class of 2010 valedictorian and is now a sophomore at Princeton University. That doesn’t sound anything like the Allentown schools you read about regularly on the blogosphere …
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Peter H. Kromayer
2:05 pm on Saturday, December 17, 2011
Parental influence is the key to a student's progress. The problem at William Allen is that there an awful lot of kids going there whose parents dont give a hoot about what their children do in school. THEY are the ones that have to be educated first, before their kids can make any progress. more ›