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St. Tammany Parish Scholarship Success Stories
Thank you for your support! Essie Powell and his wife Nicole always knew their top priority would be preparing their three children for college. But getting there was proving difficult. After enrolling their oldest daughter in private school, they quickly realized there weren’t enough funds to pay for their other two children to attend private school as well. It weighed heavily on the couple, since they noticed problems with the local public school their two youngest children were attending.
When Shelly Stabile’s five-year-old son, Kaden, attended Northlake Christian Academy’s summer camp, both mother and son fell in love.
“The material that was being taught wasn’t coming up to par,” Nicole says.
“The attention, the love, the one-on-one care,” Shelly raves. “I wanted my son to be able to grow up in an environment like that more than just at home.”
Even more frustrating, the parents say there just wasn’t enough personalized instruction when their students encountered struggles grasping certain concepts in the classroom.
Shelly yearned to provide Kaden with the structured education she was fortunate enough to have herself as a child. But, like many other parents, she ran into the problem of being able to afford it.
“My fourth-grader was having difficulty with reading,” says Nicole, who also says she wanted more one-on-one tutoring.
“I’m a single mother, and I don’t have any means to send him to a private school,” she says.
“It just wasn’t fitting with the criteria,” Essie says. “We wanted our kids not only to learn, but to have a better chance to succeed.” So the parents were elated when they applied for—and received—scholarships for their two younger children attend to the same school their oldest already attended, Northlake Christian Academy in Covington, Louisiana. “We want [our kids] to be prepared to make high scores and go to college and handle the material,” Essie says. “We don’t want them to just go through and be satisfied with the norm.” Now, all three children are enjoying the tailored coaching they need to shine, in an environment their parents believe will provide their children with the groundwork needed to get ahead in the world. Says Essie: “We want them to have the right kind of curriculum to succeed, and Northlake is doing that.”
So when a friend suggested that Shelly apply for a scholarship through the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence program, she jumped at the chance. And when she got her son’s acceptance letter in the mail, Shelly couldn’t believe it. Neither could Kaden. “When I told him he would be going to Northlake Christian, he was so excited, jumping up and down, hugging me,” Shelly says. The excitement hasn’t worn off over the past few months since Kaden enrolled at Northlake. Shelly and her son are enjoying a vastly different educational landscape than Kaden had in previous years at the family’s local public preschool. “At his new school, the teacher called me right back and spoke with me for 45 minutes,” Shelly says. “It just showed me that they care. She took the time out to let me know very specific things about how he’s doing, and that she’s working with my son.” Shelly not only recognizes the importance of the structured teaching Kaden now receives, but she’s also aware of how vital it is to be able to place her son in a school that teaches her son the values she wants to instill in him. “He’s getting what he needs in life outside the home,” she says. “It just feels so good as a parent to be able to put him in a school like that through a scholarship program.”
Louisiana Federation for Children Giving Kids Hope for a Brighter Future Louisiana4Children.org
Thank you for your support! Essie Powell and his wife Nicole always knew their top priority would be preparing their three children for college. But getting there was proving difficult. After enrolling their oldest daughter in private school, they quickly realized there weren’t enough funds to pay for their other two children to attend private school as well. It weighed heavily on the couple, since they noticed problems with the local public school their two youngest children were attending.
When Shelly Stabile’s five-year-old son, Kaden, attended Northlake Christian Academy’s summer camp, both mother and son fell in love.
“The material that was being taught wasn’t coming up to par,” Nicole says.
“The attention, the love, the one-on-one care,” Shelly raves. “I wanted my son to be able to grow up in an environment like that more than just at home.”
Even more frustrating, the parents say there just wasn’t enough personalized instruction when their students encountered struggles grasping certain concepts in the classroom.
Shelly yearned to provide Kaden with the structured education she was fortunate enough to have herself as a child. But, like many other parents, she ran into the problem of being able to afford it.
“My fourth-grader was having difficulty with reading,” says Nicole, who also says she wanted more one-on-one tutoring.
“I’m a single mother, and I don’t have any means to send him to a private school,” she says.
“It just wasn’t fitting with the criteria,” Essie says. “We wanted our kids not only to learn, but to have a better chance to succeed.” So the parents were elated when they applied for—and received—scholarships for their two younger children attend to the same school their oldest already attended, Northlake Christian Academy in Covington, Louisiana. “We want [our kids] to be prepared to make high scores and go to college and handle the material,” Essie says. “We don’t want them to just go through and be satisfied with the norm.” Now, all three children are enjoying the tailored coaching they need to shine, in an environment their parents believe will provide their children with the groundwork needed to get ahead in the world. Says Essie: “We want them to have the right kind of curriculum to succeed, and Northlake is doing that.”
So when a friend suggested that Shelly apply for a scholarship through the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence program, she jumped at the chance. And when she got her son’s acceptance letter in the mail, Shelly couldn’t believe it. Neither could Kaden. “When I told him he would be going to Northlake Christian, he was so excited, jumping up and down, hugging me,” Shelly says. The excitement hasn’t worn off over the past few months since Kaden enrolled at Northlake. Shelly and her son are enjoying a vastly different educational landscape than Kaden had in previous years at the family’s local public preschool. “At his new school, the teacher called me right back and spoke with me for 45 minutes,” Shelly says. “It just showed me that they care. She took the time out to let me know very specific things about how he’s doing, and that she’s working with my son.” Shelly not only recognizes the importance of the structured teaching Kaden now receives, but she’s also aware of how vital it is to be able to place her son in a school that teaches her son the values she wants to instill in him. “He’s getting what he needs in life outside the home,” she says. “It just feels so good as a parent to be able to put him in a school like that through a scholarship program.”
Louisiana Federation for Children Giving Kids Hope for a Brighter Future Louisiana4Children.org
