Entering the building on her first day of tenth grade, sophomore Karlee Kroner looks around and realizes she’s the new kid. Her hands start to shake and she tries to calm herself as she makes her way to her first period class. She never imagined she would end up in this place, yet here she is.
Kroner transferring from Mansfield High School to Legacy High School wasn’t something she ever saw herself going through with.
“I was never really the new kid,” Kroner said. “I started school with the same kids I ended up with until I transferred.”
The fifteen year old made the decision the summer before her sophomore year that she was ready for a change.
“I wanted to be with my brother for his last year of highschool,” Kroner said. “Especially with Grant loving Legacy so much after he transferred. It made me want to go even more.”
Grant Kroner, Karlee’s brother, goes to Legacy and plays on the varsity football team.
“I absolutely love going to the football games with my friends,” Kroner said. “Everyone gets involved, and all the students come together and cheer Legacy on, win or lose. [The students] school spirit makes the atmosphere positive. Everyone is a family and nobody is overseen or left out.”
Sometimes she still has her regrets about going through with the transfer because she misses her friends at Mansfield, but she loves her new friends at Legacy too.
“I don’t think I would go back if I was given the option,” Kroner said. “Legacy is really starting to grow on me. The reason I came to Legacy was for more opportunities. I definitely have more at Legacy than I did at Mansfield, like having a higher GPA and getting the chance to meet new people.”
Kroner loves her decision of transferring to Legacy. She believes it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing and that being a Bronco is what she is meant to be.
“Legacy was a great fresh start. It was exactly what I needed, a good change.”
