Danville Class of 2012: Before finals, familiarity has set in
By Noelle McGee
Sunday December 21, 2008
Rick Danzl
From left, Taylor Enos, Whitney Ogelsby and Katie Hazelbaker play a math board game, created by classmates, in their 'Projects in Algebra' class, which gives students an extra hour of math and uses different instructional methods to help them learn.
Editor's note: This is the second of an occasional series about Danville High School's Class of 2012. The 431 students are the first to go through Freshman House, a new program aimed at boosting achievement, increasing the graduation rate and reducing the high dropout rate.
It's barely 40 degrees and pouring rain, and part of Matt Shaffer yearns to crawl back into bed.
But the Danville High School freshman and his classmates sit in first-period algebra working a problem the teacher has scrawled on the dry-erase board.
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