Jafar Hussein: The rise of a 4.8 GPA cross country champion
In middle school, Jafar Hussein wasn’t the best student. He failed math in the eighth grade and was almost kicked out of his honors math class. But currently, in eleventh grade, Jafar has never received anything less than an A in math since starting high school. Much of his change in attitude and academics he attributes to the discipline of track and cross country “I was a regular kid, I…
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