08-14-2013, 12:41 PM
Wow, I liked this passage. What a testament to the power of a good school & teachers.
[Skov] eventually landed at Trinity-Pawling, a prep school in upstate New York after being kicked off the Piedmont High team for missing the team bus to a big game. Shayne thrived in the structure and stability of the prep school where he loaded up on AP courses, scored a 1,300 on the SAT and excelled on the football team. That school was nothing short of a miracle, his father Peter Skov says. I sent my kid there as an act of desperation. He was on his way to a construction job, and they turned him into a Stanford student. Are you kidding me? Says Shayne, I cant say enough about how much patience they had with me and steered me in the right direction.
[Skov] eventually landed at Trinity-Pawling, a prep school in upstate New York after being kicked off the Piedmont High team for missing the team bus to a big game. Shayne thrived in the structure and stability of the prep school where he loaded up on AP courses, scored a 1,300 on the SAT and excelled on the football team. That school was nothing short of a miracle, his father Peter Skov says. I sent my kid there as an act of desperation. He was on his way to a construction job, and they turned him into a Stanford student. Are you kidding me? Says Shayne, I cant say enough about how much patience they had with me and steered me in the right direction.