KeeganFund.org
Title
Keegan Wahler Memorial Scholarship Association
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- The Keegan Wahler Scholarship annually gives a minimum of $500 to students at Amador Valley High School, Foothill High School, and Village High School in Pleasanton, California. This scholarship will be given to students that have overcome the odds in some way, or dealt with a hardship during school, but continued to fight their way through anyway. We understand that so-called disabilities do not actually mean that one lacks the ability to perform a task, and sometimes can even become a source of strength when one accepts it, and given a fair chance. It is generally the case that the only people prepared when difficult situations present themselves are those who have met the adversity of things like emotional whirlwinds who play the most significant role in shaping a society. It is often the case that a look at the personal life of an extrordinary leader, such as Abraham Lincoln, will reveal countless emotional 'hurricanes' that actually served to teach him how to gather the support the men in his armies as they found themselves fighting against their own flesh and blood. In his case, there were numerous family problems, unusual physical 'deformities', etc. The observation that people can be outcasts, get labeled as 'dumb' by an academic institution simply because a preference of a learn in unconventional ways for either social or financial reasons is an exposure of flaws within in the system by which a person's abilities are assessed.
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