Matt Tully

Today we read two columns from Matt Tully.  In each of them, he talked about the obstacles that kids face in the Indianapolis Public Schools, in which he got more in detail in his second column.  In the first column, he talked about the kids at Manuel High School.  He spoke about the statistics about the school's graduation rate and their record-low test scores.  In the second column, he talked about Brent Jones, a senior at Manuel who has gone through his entire life without knowing his actual identity.  As a child, his mother was a drug addict and had passed Brent off to her friend without passing through the legal obstacles.  With graduation approaching, Brent had tired to find his mom in order to get into college.  They found Brent's mother, and they all met together before graduation.  Brent got a scholorship to Vincennes University in culinary arts.  I felt this story was really motivating for alot of people. Many people go through this, and Brent's attitude helped him through everything.