Display screen seize of Jonathan Collins, highschool senior at The IDEAL College of Manhattan.
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Jonathan Collins a highschool senior at The IDEAL College in Manhattan has a ardour for music and performed bass guitar in eleventh grade as a part of the college’s band, Artwork Beat.
He lives within the Decrease East Aspect of Manhattan, within the neighborhood of Stuyvesant City. “I like that there are playgrounds and basketball courts, the place I’d spend time through the summer time,” he stated.
His dad is primarily Jewish, whereas his mother’s household is of a mixture of cultures together with Italian and French. A number of of his cousins have Puerto Rican background.
The scholar stated his mother has had the best affect on his life. “She helped get me into the IDEAL College, and now I’m heading into the transition program,” he said.
Collins is at present within the Zenith program on the college, which gives extra help in an inclusive classroom with two co-teachers or a educating crew. He will likely be within the transitional program later this yr.
The transition program, referred to as Subsequent Steps, is a one, two, or three-year submit secondary program, which helps every scholar’s continued progress in social-emotional, adaptive-life, government functioning, and vocational abilities. It additionally helps college students and households in planning for his or her subsequent steps, altering the main target from instructional to grownup providers.
In his junior yr, he gave college excursions to those that had been taken with attending the college, by means of Subsequent Steps. “I seen there was a chance accessible, and Mr. Kemp helped me get it,” he stated. He added that it was not straightforward as a result of they’d occur throughout math class.
Whereas being within the transition program, Collins plans on gaining the required abilities to change into a locksmith on the college. As well as, he wish to enhance in math in this system .
Collins said that when he graduates, he needs his influence to be about getting recognition for his exhausting work. “I wish to concentrate on selling the college, and setting an instance for ninth, tenth, and eleventh graders,” he continued.
Subsequent for Collins is entering into the transitional program. He already submitted his functions for it, and he has an interview on January 31 with the admissions crew.
Some issues that make him comfortable are taking part in basketball, dancing, and connecting with individuals in his group, together with the elders, who know him nicely.
