<p>And from another news source…</p>
<p>[From</a> scrubbing floors to Ivy League: Homeless student to go to dream college - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/07/us/from-janitor-to-harvard/index.html?hpt=hp_c2]From”>http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/07/us/from-janitor-to-harvard/index.html?hpt=hp_c2)</p>
<p>That’s amazing.</p>
<p>I admit this story made me cry. She’s such an unbelievable inspiration. Her mentors are to be commended as well. As is Harvard.</p>
<p>The article in #2 Putnam worried Dawn’s home situation could worsen while she was away. “We weren’t even sure where her parents were at that time. And there was an eviction notice on the house,” she says. “We kept telling her to get everything she could; we knew this was a possibility.” “I found out later they had moved to Tennessee.” She could move yet again to Tennessee to be with her mother,</p>
<p>So according to this article, during her participating 6 weeks long summer camp, her parents were apparently evicted and they then moved to Tennessee. After the camp, she was then supposed to live with parents and go to new school in Tennessee, but she didnt want it, didnt elected it. How this is a case that she was abandoned by her parents? And she became homeless by electing not to live with parents in Tennessee? I thought kids must attend public schools where their parents live. How was this student still continue able to remain in the school, even after her parents moved out of the town officially?</p>
<p>I met her at Visitas this year. Incredibly sweet and humble. I had no idea of her unfortunate circumstances, but all the more power to her for overcoming them.</p>
<p>My impression was that she did not know at the time where her parents were, only knowing that they had left after leaving her grandparent at a homeless shelter. It was only “later” that she learned that they had moved to Tennessee. The article never stated whether her parents was even able to establish a new residence. It is more likely that, for a couple who couldn’t pay for electricity, they remained homeless in the new state.</p>
<p>Children who are homeless have the option of enrolling either in the school they had attended when they became homeless, their last attended school, or the school near the homeless shelter where they live. Dawn therefore had the option of staying in her current school. The administrator at the high school did the extraordinary thing of offering her support so that she could stay with a family and live as normally as possible while continuing her education, instead of turning her to child services, which I think made a huge difference. </p>
<p>In any case, I’m so honored to have someone like Dawn as a classmate and so proud of Harvard for making this admission decision.</p>
<p>The article said that her parents have drug problems. But there is no indication that they are child abusers, their parental right to keep their kids has not been taken away by court. They are simply poor, but love her and she knows their love. After her parents were relocated to Tennessee, she remained in the same school, and was even in the better place by her friends family support. So why is this case “Homeless to Harvard”, and more than having poor parents (thus having hardships coming with - living in poor with less support)?</p>