Floyd Maxey stares at the computer screen currently flickering with all the evidence of his high school career’s rocky start: a B in one class, D’s in three others — and an F.
Sitting next to him in the computer lab, his mentor clicks into the page detailing the high school freshman’s current D in algebra. “How’s Ms. Ruiz’s class been going?” asks the mentor, 23-year-old Eleanor Kim.
“Ms. Eleanor, I don’t like that class,” Floyd groans. “It’s hard up in there.”
“You should be asking for help,” replies Kim, an AmeriCorps member for an education-focused service organization called City Year. This school year, Kim has worked as a mentor and tutor to Floyd and 10 other freshman at the South L.A. charter high school he attends, Locke College Preparatory Academy.
[For more of this story, written by Kyle Stokes, go to https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017...list-in-high-school/]
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