"Ardmore's A Better Chance Program Gives Hope"
Main Line Today magazine features Patty's work with the
Lower Merion ABC House.
"Dinner time is 6 o’clock sharp. By then, the boys at the long table are hungry enough to tear through their roasted chicken, potatoes and salad. There’s talk about an upcoming Spanish test and a review of homework. Someone rushes off to basketball practice. Everyone else clears the table, then scatters to their rooms.
It’s normal family stuff—except that this is a family bonded not by blood, but by brains.
The eight boys who live in this Ardmore house are part of A Better Chance, a national program that has educated more than 14,000 students, all of them minorities of color who grew up in poor neighborhoods with failing schools.
Like the boys and girls who live in similar houses in Radnor and Swarthmore, these kids are smart and ambitious, so much so that they survived ABC’s rigorous application process. At stake are spots in the country’s best private schools—think Spence, Choate, Phillips Exeter, Episcopal, Shipley and Tower Hill—and the financial aid to afford them. ABC is also behind Community School Programs, through which students live, all expenses paid, in boarding-school-style homes in great public school districts, including Lower Merion, Radnor and Swarthmore." Read more...
Main Line Today magazine features Patty's work with the
Lower Merion ABC House.
"Dinner time is 6 o’clock sharp. By then, the boys at the long table are hungry enough to tear through their roasted chicken, potatoes and salad. There’s talk about an upcoming Spanish test and a review of homework. Someone rushes off to basketball practice. Everyone else clears the table, then scatters to their rooms.
It’s normal family stuff—except that this is a family bonded not by blood, but by brains.
The eight boys who live in this Ardmore house are part of A Better Chance, a national program that has educated more than 14,000 students, all of them minorities of color who grew up in poor neighborhoods with failing schools.
Like the boys and girls who live in similar houses in Radnor and Swarthmore, these kids are smart and ambitious, so much so that they survived ABC’s rigorous application process. At stake are spots in the country’s best private schools—think Spence, Choate, Phillips Exeter, Episcopal, Shipley and Tower Hill—and the financial aid to afford them. ABC is also behind Community School Programs, through which students live, all expenses paid, in boarding-school-style homes in great public school districts, including Lower Merion, Radnor and Swarthmore." Read more...