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  • Hurricane High School
  • Hurricane, WV
  • More than a third of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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We are a diverse, rural, public high school in West Virginia with a socioeconomic gap between students who get dropped off from the suburbs and students who walk down a hollow to catch a school bus. Mostly, these are students who stand together to learn and to support one another in crisis and who, most of the time, see past themselves into a future beyond high school. They are quick to speculate about what might have been, first to question the reason why, and always catch the mistake when it is heard. My students are the first to pick apart anyone's theories of why things are and debate with them until finally you have to call a stalemate because the only solution is to agree to disagree, but they are the first to come together in a crisis (death of a student) and equally share each other's burdens. When I look at my classes, I see the athlete, the doctor, the mechanic, the brick layer, and the "I have no idea what I will be", but mostly I see the students struggling to be, just that, students.

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We are a diverse, rural, public high school in West Virginia with a socioeconomic gap between students who get dropped off from the suburbs and students who walk down a hollow to catch a school bus. Mostly, these are students who stand together to learn and to support one another in crisis and who, most of the time, see past themselves into a future beyond high school. They are quick to speculate about what might have been, first to question the reason why, and always catch the mistake when it is heard. My students are the first to pick apart anyone's theories of why things are and debate with them until finally you have to call a stalemate because the only solution is to agree to disagree, but they are the first to come together in a crisis (death of a student) and equally share each other's burdens. When I look at my classes, I see the athlete, the doctor, the mechanic, the brick layer, and the "I have no idea what I will be", but mostly I see the students struggling to be, just that, students.

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