Every year for a day, from third to seventh block, the AVID high school students of Legacy receive an opportunity to help a middle school student experience an average day of high school, which will hopefully prepare them for their first year of high school. Worley Middle School and Linda Jobe Middle School sent their AVID students to experience a day in the life of a high school student. Mrs. Roberts, the senior AVID class teacher, led the role of assigning “shadows” to her students.

“The hope is that they become more comfortable in the high school environment and they continue in the AVID program,” Mrs. Roberts said.

AVID prepares students in advance to succeed in their classes and get ready to go to college. In the class, students fill out tutorials and have daily binder checks to help them understand certain problems and to be organized for their classes. Senior Cynthia Suarez, like many of the seniors in AVID, volunteered to have a shadow for the day.

“Since it’s my last year, it’s exciting to see how excited they are to come and see high school,” Suarez said.

12th, 11th and 10th grade students participated in the shadow activity by being the mentors and leaders to the shadow students. 47 students from Jobe came on Thursday and eight students from Worley came on Friday to see what the high school environment felt like and if they could see themselves somewhere in Legacy in the next year.

“Hopefully something they see or hear will peak their interest and their classes for next year,” Mrs. Roberts said.

The AVID high school students chose the eighth graders depending on their area of interest or similar classes that their major would require that the HS student had. Some, like eighth grader Emily Fields from Linda Jobe Middle School, chose to study cosmetology during and after high school.

“It’s a nice school,” Fields said. “It’s different than Jobe, way different.”