BENEFITS OF AVID PROGRAM EXPLAINED TO SCHOOL BOARD

  

The Brenham School board listened to a presentation about the AVID program at their meeting Monday evening.  The AVID program is being implemented at both the Junior High and High School campuses.  The program is designed to provide tutoring and support to students who are interested in going to college, but may lack the support at home to do so.  Many of these students would be the first person in their family to go to college.   Currently, AVID is elective class that students must qualify and be selected for.  Brenham Junior High Principal Bryan Bryant explains:

The program provides tutoring in core subjects and activities such as college campus visits to get students thinking about college.  Bryan Bryant explains that it benefits not only the college bound students, but the entire campus:

Several administrators in the district have had experience with AVID before they came to Brenham, including Bryant, High School Principal Joe Chandler and Superintendent Walter Jackson.