Chicago Valedictorians Struggle to Stay Competitive.

The Chicago Reporter | May 1, 2001| | Copyright

Even though she worked hard and earned top grades in almost all her classes, Wendy Purham said her principal at Jean Baptiste Point DuSable High School gave up on her and made her feel her dream of becoming valedictorian was beyond reach. So did her guidance counselor, who didn't include her in trips to college campuses.

It would have been easy for Purham to give up on herself. When she looked out the windows of her classroom at DuSable, 4934S. Wabash Ave., she saw a foreboding line of beige public housing high rises--the Robert Taylor Homes. She watched other girls ...

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