Post by Okwes on Jun 10, 2008 10:54:46 GMT -5
Hundreds of students here in the Valley will be graduation high school in the next couple of weeks.
One small group of students in our area is looking forward to graduation so they'll spend less time on the road.
They've been travelling almost 100 miles every day. They attend the Noli Indian School.
It's an all Native American school with students coming from 27 different tribes in the area.
Willie Morrell is from the Morongo tribe. The school buses him in from Beumount. Some of his friends come from even further.
"They pick them up earlier than me, around 6:30 and then they pick me up around 7 o'clock," Morrell says.
The Noli Indian School is smaller with just over 200 students spread out through 6th to 12th grade.
With the class size ranging between four and 20 students. Students must be enrolled in a tribe to attend Noli. Some of them come to Noli because a friend told them about the school.
"It's a small school, you know everybody in the school so that's cool," says Valedictorian Darrin Boggs.
The school is growing, with more and more students graduating each year.
"Each year adding 1 or 2 more," says Senior Class Advisor Susan June. "The classes coming up are bigger than this one. Each class that as you go down a grade gets bigger in size."
One small group of students in our area is looking forward to graduation so they'll spend less time on the road.
They've been travelling almost 100 miles every day. They attend the Noli Indian School.
It's an all Native American school with students coming from 27 different tribes in the area.
Willie Morrell is from the Morongo tribe. The school buses him in from Beumount. Some of his friends come from even further.
"They pick them up earlier than me, around 6:30 and then they pick me up around 7 o'clock," Morrell says.
The Noli Indian School is smaller with just over 200 students spread out through 6th to 12th grade.
With the class size ranging between four and 20 students. Students must be enrolled in a tribe to attend Noli. Some of them come to Noli because a friend told them about the school.
"It's a small school, you know everybody in the school so that's cool," says Valedictorian Darrin Boggs.
The school is growing, with more and more students graduating each year.
"Each year adding 1 or 2 more," says Senior Class Advisor Susan June. "The classes coming up are bigger than this one. Each class that as you go down a grade gets bigger in size."