She started going back to school, but that doesn't mean her problems went away. "If I don't fight, who's going to fight? Who's going to fight for me or my child?" she said. She was determined that wasn't true but knew she had to change it. There were people who told her she'd ruined her life. Girls there got pregnant, dropped out of school, and found low-income apartments. That could have been the start of the path she saw play out in the neighborhood around her.
She had to repeat ninth grade three times, eventually ending up in the same class as her younger brother and younger sister. In that last freshman year, Moorehead got pregnant. She nervously, but openly, told them how at, one point, she just stopped going to school. She was the keynote speaker at the Lancaster County Truancy Symposium, helping to shed light on an issue weighing on many in education: why students fade away from school.
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In late October, Moorehead, now 24, stood before a room full of guidance counselors, social workers and others who work with students. "School began to slowly fade into the background of my life," Moorehead said. Life at home was chaotic, and school just didn't seem that important. She loved school at that age and won a scholarship when she was still in elementary school.īut things changed for her, somewhere around middle school. Moorehead can tell by the second-grader's enthusiasm - when she tells her mom she was recognized for a positive behavior, like being respectful, or was the only one to raise her hand for a question in class.Īniyah, 8, reminds her mother of herself when she was young.
Ginia Moorehead's daughter, Aniyah Christy, loves school.
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