Thursday, February 5, 2009
Pace Academy
I am a mentor for this organization called Pace Academy. This organization sends mentors to a school which is also called Pace Academy. Pace Academy is a small school for kids who can not be in the public school system for various reasons like: discipline problems, pregnancy, learning disabilities, or if their parents just decide that they do not want their child in public school systems and feels that Pace would be the best option. I started mentoring at Pace at the beginning of last semester. Last semester was okaay but since this is a new organization there was a lot of communication problems between the members of the organization and the officials at the school. I was assigned a mentee and at the beginning everything was great. I was really getting to know her and I was helping her with her homework and her mother was even calling me to talk about her progress, but because of lack of communication I got stuck with no mentee towards the end of the semester. I kept seeing my mentee walking to the mall every time I was on my way to go tutor her, and I kept thinking to myself that she was skipping our sessions, and it wasnt like the sessions were that long so I became upset, and I felt like I had done something wrong to make her want to skipp our sessions. But the officials did not tell me that my work had payed off and the raeson why my mentee wasnt in the program anymore was because she was passing all of her classes. I was happy to her that but still upset at the lack of communication. Well now we have started a new semester with Pace and I have a new mentee, but I still have yet to meet this one because he did not come to school for our first session together so we will see how this one works out lol.
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