http://www.stlamerican.com/news/community_news/article_f41bc1ca-61e9-5aed-bf02-8449fd20d3f1.html
"On August 22, 2009 all of this changed for Burgess.
This is the day over 90 volunteers from the district’s Reach Out to Dropouts program visited the homes of students who had either dropped out of school or were at risk of dropping out. They spoke with the students and their parents, encouraging their completion of a high school diploma. A spark was ignited. Shortly after Burgess spoke with Reach Out to Dropouts volunteers, he returned to school and
enrolled in the district’s Positive Alternative Learning (PAL) Center. There he began taking classes and completing coursework through NovaNet, an internet-based credit recovery program, with support from PAL Center teachers and administrators and his mom, Lisa Brooks. Recently,
Burgess walked into Normandy High School’s Viking Hall as a member of the Class of 2010 and walked out with his high school diploma in hand."
Just trying to connect dots:
1) NYT reported MB changed high schools 4 times, spending "most of his last two years at Normandy HS" where he "graduated" this summer.
2) MB had attended and left 3 other schools before the unaccredited NHS, indicating he had problems of some kind with admins/teachers/students/or coursework.
3) By the end of 10th grade or early 11th, MB was likely deemed a drop-out risk imo.
4) Reach-out-to-Dropouts volunteers may have visited and talked with Ms. McSpadden about moving MB to the PAL Center, which she did.
5) MB technically graduated from the horrible, unaccredited Normandy HS, but didn't attend there, except perhaps for the final short summer session. imo
There was a reason that Crump Inc would like to keep hidden imo for why MB changed school 4 times, and likely finished via an "internet based" program that kept him away from regular classes with other students/teachers. JMO though.
