By Susan Narjala | Corporate Communications Manager
Abdul is an 11–year-old with a big smile and sparkling eyes. But what his smile didn’t reveal was that he faced a challenge – a big one. In his 11 years, no one had given him enough attention to see if he was actually learning anything at school. Instead, he was simply promoted to the next grade – just so the numbers looked right in the books.
So, here was Abdul, a 6th grader. A 6th grader who didn’t know his ABCs. A 6th grader who had been written off as dumb, a sure high school dropout in couple years.
That’s when U&I came into Abdul’s life. With the attention of his U&I tutors, Abdul finally began committing to the task. Maybe it was his U&I teachers’ creative consequences for coming late to class – Abdul was made to write the alphabet down every time he was tardy. Maybe it was because Abdul needed the one-on-one attention. Whatever the reason, Abdul finally started “getting it.”
His tutor Anuj recalls, “In his first assessment, Abdul didn’t even know his ABCs. By his second assessment he got a 50 out of 50 on his test. It was a proud moment for all of us.”
No one could believe their eyes. Especially not Abdul. He saw the stars on his test paper and beamed with pride. For the first time ever, he had a perfect score on a test. His mother seeing the test results was sure Abdul had faked the results.
On Abdul’s insistence, his mom came to the U&I Learning Center to meet his teacher. Could it be that he boy had a perfect score? Or did he lie to her? But Abdul knew that the truth was way more exciting than a lie. He had got a perfect score. And he didn’t dream it up!
U&I tutors work with kids like Abdul on a daily basis. They see individual learning needs. They take the time to creatively teach each child. They invest in each child and instill them with an I-can-do-it attitude.
Abdul is one of 850 children that U&I reaches out to every single day. Come, join us as we commit to giving each child the confidence to shine – in the classroom and beyond.
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