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in

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the beginning of

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my freshman year I wanted to be an everything and anything

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I possibly could and Bishop really provided that

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for me whatever passion you may have fish

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an outlet for you so follow your passion and

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really Embrace every opportunity you can because

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Bishop is a place that wants you to succeed

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Bishop

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does a really great job about letting

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you find your people you're able to talk to

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your teachers if you need anything they're there for you it

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is so easy to just email a teacher have come to

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their classroom and be like hey I have this going on and I'll be there

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are you and support you

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and one of the aspects one of the things that we

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do is that we do incorporate a lot of religion

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teachings whether it's praying for a game or

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having little bondings where are the

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values the education

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and the people here at the loving Community where we all

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help each other to achieve our goals that we want to achieve

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Bishop has kind of giving me the gateway

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to actually finding out what I

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want to do what I want to be known as

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the main piece of advice that I give to others would

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just be to make sure you're aware of everything that Bishop

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has to offer cuz there's so much

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I feel that the staff

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here is so supportive and because

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we're the perfect size it's not too big it's not

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small you need to actually develop relationships with

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them and you'll feel that every single one of

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your teachers genuinely wants to see you succeed when

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you enter your going to have a lot of questions you're

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going to worry about things how things

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will work out but if you just show up

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if you just be yourself everything is going to work out

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hi my name is Brian

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Haines fish Montgomery class of 1980

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I know I've been teaching here for a little over a decade

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coaching for close to 15 years I

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coach cross country and track along

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with girl soccer and I video

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production and honors broadcast journalism

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when they graduate I think there's that

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confidence amongst Bishop students that

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you don't see with just any other high school and I love

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that didn't really feel seen and understood

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and cared for and

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be with

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each other there on the road there.

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going in there talking whether it's talking about life

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talking about problems talking about

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every little thing that he can they help build each other

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and if one of them is down those runs

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or where they can work out problems and get a focus

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for their day

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I teach biology and AP biology in

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the suicide 15th your teeth their counselors

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are really available so I think they're

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often like thinking what do I want to take what

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do I went to learn what do I want to do in life and

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that academics are really rigorous

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so they're definitely prepared for what they're

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setting in the future I think Bishop does a really good job

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about letting us it's like Explorer individual

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cells and self-expression through our

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Retreats her at school so we have a mess

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and Kairos for juniors and seniors

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although like we do Explorer like the religious side of

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it and gives us a chance to understand who we are in

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our identity and correlation to our life

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journey and how we got to where we are and Bishop is a

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really good job at like letting us do that on our own pace

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and on our own Journey

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that's where we have our students helping

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students we get a group of about 50

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of the top Juniors and seniors throughout

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the school and they're prepared to go

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with 10 freshmen and boys and girls if

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they don't know and the freshmen don't know each other

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but we have training for them where they learn how

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to communicate and

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make those kids feel welcome

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here at school their mentors for them they

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stay with them the whole year any problems they

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have really great program

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what are the best things that I do Aaron love it a lot I

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would say to just be yourself and know that

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everything is going to fall into place are really like

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Christian service projects here they offer at Bishop

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reasoning behind that is because I really feel

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that they give us that opportunity to take

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first steps and then after that we kind of

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understand and see what we originally do

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is our being able to then go with my home

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Parish to be able to pack food for those who live in

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Guatemala to be able to do all the wonderful opportunities

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and volunteer things that they are

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a

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lot of people love the bishop

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community and it sounds super vague but the bishop

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Community as a real thing and not

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only do like we have students feel it but faculties

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the two

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being a part of the Bishop Montgomery Community

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helped me develop my sense of social

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responsibility Bishop has a lot of opportunities

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for allowing us to prepare for the college

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process one of which is our portfolios

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freshman year the football year gives us an opportunity to

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write down our accomplishments and awards and

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give us opportunity to write down what classes

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we've taken throughout our time here at Bishop the Grays we've gotten

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short descriptions enable show examples

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in with that wide range of act

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things that you can join and be involved in it's

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really wonderful just to know what

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there is cuz even as a senior I wish I

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had a couple more years here just because of the amount of things

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that I kind of missed out on and I've heard about I

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wish want to do more

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I

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feel like the education is all

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about not only promoting that we're good academic

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students but making sure that there's time

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in our day to have physical wellness cuz that's just as

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important

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The Far Side gifted students considering to join our

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school Community is to get yourself out there the

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more involved you are the more you get out of Bishop Montgomery and

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communication is key because I

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feel like everyone here whether your student a

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faculty are willing to help you

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Bishop is a place that wants

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you to succeed and wants you to pursue these

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dreams and goals that you have to embrace it and

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go for it