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Max stands for Morris Academy for collaborative studies

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we are located in the Morris

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educational campus in the South Bronx and

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opened in 2003 as part

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of the small schools movement Morris

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educational campus is the oldest high school in

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the Bronx we have a gorgeous and historic

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building it's a beautiful school you

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have beautiful people it's a community that comes

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together the most important thing we have here

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that everybody has a group that they connect

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to or a staff member that they really connect to honestly

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everyone here wants the best for every

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student and every staff and faculty I

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know that I'm personally really connected to every

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teacher that has taught me from freshman

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to know Max is all about students

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which might sound obvious but I think more

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so than in other places we really focus on finding

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out what students want what students

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need uh what students are interested in and then

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working to make that available and

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possible for them 1 thing I always tell

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students is that we don't want you

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to close any doors while we're here that

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you don't yet know you'll want open in your

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future so we do that by providing a

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high quality education in

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inclusive of any support students might need including

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before school after school and

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lunch tutoring we also offer

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a variety of different clubs

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we have a lot of opportunities like PGC

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which is pure group connections where we as

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of a classmate Mentor lower classmen I love

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being a pgce leader I loved

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connecting with the ninth graders I would never

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be able to connect the way I did

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if it wasn't for PGC 1

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of the really strong programs that our

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was a student ambassador program where our students are able

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to be hired as New York City Public

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Schools Employees and they can work before

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and after school assisting in various

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different offices or working 1-on-1

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with a teacher to do tasks around

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the school which allows them to not only

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earn a paycheck but support their community

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at the same time we have a ton of sports soccer

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basketball baseball softball

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volleyball there are quite a few we

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also have syp and Loan

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yard and all those are work programs as

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well and Lazar teaches you about financial and

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how to handle your financial way through life

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and that's why he's just work experience which

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are like very unique and not a lot of people have that in

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school we have so many extracurricular

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there's there's always something here for somebody and

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if there's not a club here that Max doesn't have you

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can create 1 you can go get a couple

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students and create your own club so by exposing

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students to different events activities

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clubs were able to

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just really expand possibility which I

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think is a vital component of high school education 1

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of our priorities is socio

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emotional learning and making sure that all of our students

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needs are met we are very very fortunate

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to have a robust Council

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link team we also have a school social worker

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and have full-time Partners

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through matapour and Astra

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Services which provide 2 additional clinicians

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for our students the health

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services and the counseling is very unique and

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because something that not much other schools have the

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beauty of our our program is is that everyone's

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welcome whether you have medical insurance or

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not you know collaborating with the school and

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being able to give the students

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the health care that they need and provide

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them with a safe space is 1 of the A+

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is for me I would say if you

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want your student to be out there and be

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more a collaborative this is the right school for you we

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strive to go above

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and beyond traditional schooling

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Morris Academy is basically the

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Crown Jewel of the Bronx we offer

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every single opportunity for

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our students to excel in a

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different perspective than what the social political

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and economic standings of the

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South Bronx permit I think students here

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are really happy and getting so much from their experience

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and we really really pride ourselves on giving

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our students as much as we possibly can to make them successful