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Believing Again
Past Temple Terrace and Busch Gardens, there is a special kind of high school. The school is a series of connected white-brick buildings in a 7-shape with black gates surrounding it. The exterior is polished, looking brand new.
In one of the conference rooms in this school’s administration building, a bear of a man with hands like baseball mitts is rapidly talking about the animated penguin movie Happy Feet.
In this room with Viking symbols adorning the walls, this daunting figure asks me, “Have you seen it? Have you seen Happy Feet?”
Reluctantly I reply, “No, sorry. I haven’t.”
He smiles and says, “Oh man, it’s so great! And you know,” he continues in his gruff, raspy voice, “Let me tell you . . . that’s who we are.”
This is Dr. Anthony Colucci, the principal of Bowers-Whitley Career Center.
Bowers-Whitley differs from other local high schools in many ways. It is part of the Hillsborough County Career Centers which provide career preparation programs for at-risk youth. At-risk youth are determined by their likelihood to either drop out of high school or fail out. Walking around the school, teachers and students are gleaming with motivation like there is some kind of palpable energy to turn lives around, to get on the right track and stay there.
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