Alex & IJ

Hi, my name is Alex Przybylow. I'm 12 years old and I'm in 7th grade. I'm a Charger and this is my story.

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Band is like controlled chaos. So we try to take all their energy and harness it into working together as a team. Please have good posture. Breathe. Music can really change your life. There's all kinds of studies out where music infiltrates all other It helps you with organization skills, helps you with counting, helps you with math because we use all of that.

I can't wait to see Alex as a leader. I wish I could have a crystal ball and see because I think he's going to be something special when he gets there. It's the 12 years between now and then. It's going to be hard. But this school is really— they let him know that he is capable.

They do something called the Turkey Trot. They named it after one of the teachers who was here for a long, long time, and then he passed away. So they do— it's the Gil Murdock Turkey Trot. We collect a lot of stuff, and then we donate it to charities and homeless people and hungry. It's important because if we think about them and give them stuff, then the world wouldn't be hungry and it'd be a better place.

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Hi, my name is IJ Fred. I'm an 8th grader at Providence Day School. I'm a Charger and this is my story.

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I liked math with Mr. Lee. Yeah, he made it fun for us.

That's awesome. That's awesome. That's our job. That's the best thing we can hear. I like the energy. They got the best energy, best enthusiasm. I teach middle school. Any day of the week. Nothing else. Middle school math.

He's a very bright child, but he needs someone to really kind of incite that openness and that communication with him, and we saw that Providence Day did that immediately with him.

What else? What were some of the diseases?

Oh, yellow fever, purple fever, blue fever.

That's kind of rainbow. Rainbow fever?

Yeah, that one too.

So if we can get kids to kind of see how, you know, for example, we were talking about tobacco. That crop in the 1600s was a cash crop. Even today, it still affects, you know, where it's currently grown and, you know, how it affects the southern economy. So if we can get a link to today to way back then, you know, it helps kids to learn.

Well, it's definitely somewhere that I can just be myself, and I don't really have to worry about trying to fit in with people because everybody just It just welcomes you. Spirit Week, that's fun. We always dress up in crazy outfits and stuff. And I remember last year the costume contest was fun because me and my friends, we went as superheroes, and it was funny because we were all wearing tights and stuff.

This is 7th grade right here.

I want it!

I want it! The ball is like too hard to get. You could like throw it to a friend.

Providence Day has meant so much to us at different times, but the one comforting constant is that it's been a very stable, safe, secure, and supportive environment, and there's not a better group of people to establish a lifelong friendship and connection with.

Friends should be trustworthy, definitely, and They should be somebody you kind of look up to.

One thing is that we have gotten— and I get kind of choked up saying this though— but we've gotten such a sense of family and friends where I know that there are so many people here who would treat my child just the way I would treat him or her and want them to be treated.

Fun, awesome, amazing. It's my school. It's a good place. I like to—

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Yeah, I just like to— I like to be here.