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Graduation marks another Turner 12 milestone
Coach John Carter has devoted years to developing the Turner 12 program at Lincoln High School in South Dallas.
The program gets parents involved in their children’s education and pushes youths to transform their lives inside and outside the classroom. Carter works to instill discipline, good study habits and parental oversight — with a strong emphasis on volunteerism to help uplift the surrounding community.
Twelve students commit to the program in seventh grade, and if they stay with it through graduation, Carter promises them a shot at college.
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Mentoring Program Has Dramatic Success
DALLAS - In 1999 John Carter learned some disturbing statistics. In the previous 10 years only six students from the Turner Courts in south Dallas had gone to college. So he quit his job teaching.
But instead of leaving the students, Carter began mentoring them. He worked with 12 students and 11 of them graduated college. He proved with the right attention no obstacle is too great.
And now Carter has done it again with a second group of students from Lincoln High School.
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