Baylor School senior Ling Wu, right, reads with first grade student Carter Daniel, 6, Monday at the Westside Recreation Center.IF YOU GO
Baylor officials are seeking transportation services willing to carry children who once lived in Harriet Tubman housing development to Hope for the Inner City for tutoring. About 100 students from Tubman attended tutoring when the site was open. Now that almost all the residents have relocated, about 50 students are tutored at Hope for the Inner City. To provide transportation assistance, call Vincent Boozer at 423-698-3178.
For two years, Skip Eberhardt stayed in his car when picking up his daughter from the Westside Recreation Center. He thought she only went to play basketball until one day she told him she forgot her books.
Why do you need books, he asked, and learned that she was one of 40 students coming to the recreation center not only to play ball but for tutoring.
About 15 students come from Baylor School for an hour a day, four days a week to tutor children in elementary and middle school. Baylor students have been tutoring in the recreation centers at Westside and East Chattanooga for 17 years.
Eberhardt was so moved by the tutors’ dedication, he wanted to give them an award. It took him two months to get up the money for an engraved plaque and to coordinate residents to present the award, but this week he got it done.