Despite not learning to read until he was ten-years-old, a Milwaukee teen graduates at the top of his class. Jaden Bandy got a bit of a late start on his education and didn’t even learn to read until he was ten-years-old, but that didn’t stop him from catching up with his classmates and eventually becoming the valedictorian of his high school.
At the graduation ceremony for Milwaukee Marshall High School, the star student had a message for his classmates about rising to the occasion. "No matter the circumstances that you face and the challenges, because we all go through challenges, I still want people to look up and see the light and see that they can chase their dreams and desires," he says.
Jaden credits his teachers at Marshall with his success, but his career counselor Patrice Beckley says that Jaden is amazing and just knowing him has been “an honor and a privilege.” Since he was 12, he’s wanted to be a robotics engineer and now he’s getting closer to that dream by attending Milwaukee School of Engineering in the fall on a full scholarship. He’ll also be be the first person in his family to go to college.
Source: TMJ4
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