More than 1 million people drop out of high school annually, and those who do earn $200,000 less than high school graduates over their lifetime, and $1 million less than college graduates.
Students line up for their graduation from the Goodwill program at The Helms Academy that helps people earn their diplomas, at the Camden County Boathouse in Pennsauken on Thursday.In 2019, Elbahwati dropped out of Pottstown High two months shy of graduation as he struggled with depression, anxiety, and the lingering effects of a concussion. He spent five years grinding out a living at various jobs and worried, sometimes, that would be his fate forever.
For Mark Boyd, CEO of the regional Goodwill, the joyful ceremony was the distillation of what Goodwill is about: Helms Academy is the nonprofit’s flagship program, he said. “We’ve created the new night school,” said Boyd. “Flexibility is our middle name — we will do anything to help somebody get through this program.”Elbahwati hadn’t been out of school that long, but Stanley Fischer’s gap between high school and diploma was 40 years wide. He leftHigh in Philadelphia in 1981, when he joined the Army. He built a career in the military, and working in oil fields in Western Pennsylvania.
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