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Great Bend High School PEP
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Kacey Ford, Great Bend High School physics teacher, helps Miguel Bautista, freshman, get started with the Panther Enrichment Program (PEP) as his friend, Lottie Jones, freshman, looks on. PEP is a new program at the high school designed to offer all students help with studying.
Great Bend High School wants its students to be successful.And to prove it, the administration and staff is offering one more way for that to happen.The Panther Enrichment Program started this week as a way to help all students succeed at their highest level, not just those who may be struggling.“We hope to help students achieve,” said John Popp, GBHS assistant principal. “Whether that is from an F to a D or an A to an A+, we want to provide the support to help them improve.”Popp said many schools have programs to help students with homework, but PEP is designed to do more than just offer help with assignments.“We have students who struggle with doing homework, studying for tests, conducting research, writing papers or completing projects,” Popp said. “We have discussed tutoring before and after school before, but just have not been able to get it going.”He said that teachers are always in their rooms before and after school to help, “but students really don’t take advantage of that opportunity like we would hope.