Well, something positive can come out of the Zimmerman trial. I just hope Jeantel is up for the challenge. Some of the historical black colleges have a long history of excellence. She’ll have to study a lot harder to make it then she would at any state university. Tom Joyner graduated from Tuskegee. I have a friend thats currently working his butt off at Morehouse in Atlanta as a pre-med major. He immigrated from Nigeria with his mom. Wonderful lady that works two jobs to send him to Morehouse.
Jeantel accepted the offer on Nancy Grace’s show. I won’t link to that. Anyhow good luck to Ms Jeantel. I hope she does well in life.
I’m assuming she graduated high school then? I’m not making a judgement; I honestly did not see her testimony nor do I know much about her, but I got the impression from reports that she came across as particularly uneducated. Will she have any trouble getting accepted into one of the colleges?
Well, supposedly she did. I seriously doubt Morehouse, Tuskegee or any of the really tough colleges would accept her. Those schools produce some very high quality graduates. Morehouse has produced several Rhodes Scholars.
Florida A&M might be better. Jeantel’s high school didn’t do her any favors. Her language skills will require remedial work. She needs speech classes to learn to speak up and enunciate her words. Stuff she should have learned in high school but public school these days are a joke.
Other than English, I speak very remedial Spanish (five years of classes 20+ years ago). But I don’t get your point - is English her second language? I already told you I didn’t know anything about her.
It sounds like Tom Joyner has experience getting people he helps through college. He’s the founder of the Tom Joyner Foundation. This is an incredile life changing oportunity being offered to Jeantel.
Or it could be something horrible. If she is not prepared for the rigors of college, especially a top notch college, then failing out in short order is not going to do much for her self image. I’m sure many people would assume they don’t have what it takes to finish college without realizing they should try to take some basic remedial classes and maybe try for a degree at a less demanding university.
Okay - maybe people were being unfair to her based on her testimony. Whatever; I hope it works out for her and she’s given whatever resources she needs to be successful.
I guess working with tutors and getting a GED would be better than trying to return to high school? She’s 19 now. I’m not sure what age they still recommend going back to HS.
Then Joyner said he’d provide tutors to help her prep for the SAT.
That whole deal is nothing more than a publicity stunt. She too stupid to be in college. In addition she is so lazy she couldnt even speak properly much less learn anything. On second tthought I’m sure she would make an excellent surgeon. :smack:
I saw a few clips of her on the witness stand, and she struck me as being intelligent enough to think through the question, and think about how to answer them. I also saw a few clips of her interview with Al Sharpton, and she seemed to a nice, personable young lady who is of at least average intelligence, but with not much social exposure to situations where articulation of complex thought is required. But she thought articulation was important enough to at least give it a shot, and she tried to speak in complete sentences that related directly to the topic.
Aside from that, I have no basis for comment, except that I personally know a few students in community college whom I perceive to be dumber than Rachel Jeantel.
I think it is wrong to have black colleges and to offer someone a scholarship simply because they are black. All this does is keep racism alive and well. Just my two pennies