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AVID for college: New graduates say program helped them get there

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 09/05/10

Mykema Claggett always knew she'd go off to college someday. Her mother, who had her first child at 15, was adamant about that.

By Shannon Lee Zirkle ­— The Capital Julia Flickner, a graduate of the AVID program and Chesapeake High, looks through her sociology text at Anne Arundel Community College.
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"No one in my family had gone to college. Some hadn't even finished high school," said the recent South River High graduate, 17. "But she really wanted me to do something with myself. She wanted better for her daughters."

Sadiyyah Owens had plans for college, too - but with low grades during her first two years at Arundel High School, she didn't know how she'd get there.

And North County High graduate Mandy Uebel was considering an array of different schools,...

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