JUNE 29, 2009
JORDAN NOVET
Lacy Cattledge, 9, learned to make sushi this month. She also learned to make candy sushi, out of Fruit Roll-Ups and Twinkies.
“I prefer the candy,” she said. “It tastes good.”
Cattledge was one of 260 at-risk students in the Starkville School District who participated in this year’s month-long Summer Enrichment Camp, which took place at Armstrong Middle School here. It came to a close on Friday.
The camp is one element of the school district’s ASSETS program. The acronym stands for After-School & Summer Equals Total Success.
The Starkville School District has funded the camp by way of the four-year 21st Century Community Learning Grant it received from the Mississippi Department of Education in 2006. The camp is already looking for sources of funding for next year.
Camp Director Jim Gassaway said he wants to make sure it continues, so as to prevent students from dropping out and encourage them to graduate.
“Our community needs to buy into this program in order to keep it going,” he said.
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