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Brooks Students Serve as Mentors for Oak View First Graders

Officials said the program is a great way Oak View first graders to "interact with older students and work on their math skills at the same time."

Six students, all members of the Brooks King Bees program, spent almost an hour Tuesday working on math skills with first graders at .

“We’ve been wanting to do some math intervention and have our kids work on some of their math skills,” said Oak View school social worker Amber King. “We thought having some extra hands on deck to play with math manipulatives would be a good way for them to help.”

Brooks school psychologist Miguel Salinas and seventh grade counselor Demea Richards-Scott proposed the mentoring trip for the six at-risk Brooks students figuring it was a win-win situation for both schools.

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“Our goal is to have them give back and make them feel connected, not only to the school but to the community,” Salinas said. “This was an opportunity for them to figure out who they are and what they are about…to develop their own spirit by giving back to someone else.”

King termed the visit a great way for the Oak View first graders to “interact with older students and work on their math skills at the same time.”

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Brooks students who served as mentors included Humberto Hernandez, Paul Jones, Charles McElroy, TJ Woods, Armani Moore, Tre Daniel and Raeshawn Fields.


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