Flowers from Cypress Creek

Yesterday Gayle Nobles, Director of Career and Technical and Adult Education and I attended the quarterly Community/School Advisory Council at Cypress Creek Academy (a Level 10 Juvenile Offender Correctional Center in Lecanto, Florida). I have the great privilege and honor of spending time at our schools and love sharing about the impressive work and accomplishments of our schools—and Cypress Creek is no exception. I will share with you just a preview of those accomplishments which I will share even more with you in a future post. Last year at Cypress Creek Academy school year we had 45 students who earned their high school diplomas or GED, the most ever—and we have three students currently in college and one 19 year old student who just earned his bachelor’s degree.

These great accomplishments are a testament of Principal Rob Cummins and his team of educators, the Facility Administrator and his team, Director Gayle Nobles and the commitment of the Citrus County School District, Superintendent and our Board.

Today I wanted to share with you one of the gifts and messages the students shared with us during the meeting.

Each Council member received this handmade flower, made by the students and they read the following message:

“Each of these flowers use to be a plain pieces of paper. It had no particular use and very well could have been tossed away and never’ missed. Someone took the time to transform this paper with no meaning into an object of beauty. This flower we share with you to remind you that our youth are much like these pieces of paper. Each of them have the ability to become something beautiful if someone just takes the time to be patient with them and help them with their transformation into something beautiful.“

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