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RETIRED
TEACHER INSPIRES AT-RISK YOUTH
By
Valerie Shaw, M.PR
"I
got it, Mama Hill. I got it!" says squirmy
and giggling 12-year-old Lonnie, in response to
a complicated Algebraic word problem. No, this
is not the Sylvan Learning Center ®, but rather
Mama Hill's Help, a home-based tutorial program
near Watts, on East 92nd Street, in one of the
most notorious gang areas in South Central Los
Angeles.
There's a whole lot of learnin' going on behind
the walls of the tiny white stucco house that
sits back from the street like a tidy country
church nestled in a grove of trees. For retired
L.A.U.S.D. teacher, Millicent Hill, (affectionately
known as "Mama Hill") the house is a
refuge for the 20 students [age 5 to 18] she is
helping to bring up to speed in reading comprehension,
phonics and basic paragraph structure.
Lonnie, for instance, was insecure about being
two years behind her grade level when her grandmother,
a neighbor of Mrs. Hill, discovered that the 40-year
veteran teacher was accepting students for her
tutorial program. "Today Lonnie is reading
at her grade level
(or above) and is," according to her grandmother,
Virginia Germany, "confident about her ability
to learn."
© Valerie Shaw
2005- All Rights Reserved
**All contents are the exclusive rights of the
author and may not be copied, excerpted, nor duplicated
without the expressed written permission of the
author. For questions regarding duplication of
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email to author.
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