Minnesota Meets New Orleans in Mentoring Effort
With a five-day marathon of state exams finally behind them, some 7th and 8th graders at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology were taking a break this week from their classroom routine.
A group of college and high school students from Minnesota had come to the Lower Ninth Ward school to meet and get to know them, in the hope of forging a connection that would blossom into an ongoing mentorship for the King students.
Tuesday was the second day together for the King students and their new mentors, who are students at Hamline University in St. Paul, and the Avalon School, a small charter school in St. Paul that is affiliated with Hamline. After using the first day for a series of icebreaker exercises, the mentors were starting to teach the King students to use an Internet program that will allow them to stay in close touch for things like homework help, advice, and...
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