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Essay: Make it a great day, or not
In my seventh-grade experience, you were only as cool as other people thought you were — and it was really hard to be cool. Skin starts breaking out, braces start tightening and the whole world as a 12-year-old knows it is changing. At an age when cliques, cool clothes and lunch tables determine your popularity status, Pennington’s room in the seventh-grade “Yale Pod” was a haven from all of the above.
“It was my goal not just every month, every week, but every day that when a student walked into my classroom, they heard their name said at least once,” Pennington explains. “I want them to know that they meant something not just to me, but to the community. Everybody had a place, and everybody was important.”
by Madeline Ewing,
editorial intern for TulsaPeople Magazine
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