Rachel, who became part of Hope in eighth grade, showed tremendous potential, but her report cards didn’t show it, Sinclair said.
When she first came to Hope, she didn’t care for the structured new life or about doing well at school. Rachel’s grade-point average in her freshman year was 1.7. She thought then it would only be a matter of time before she moved somewhere else again.
But something in her attitude shifted, along with her grades.
“Because my grades were so bad, they told me they’ll dismiss me,” Rachel said. “I had to step it up my sophomore year, and that changed my whole attitude, I respected people more, and my grades went up. My sophomore year, my GPA went up to 3.7.”
