Feels Good: Graduating College Before High School; Eliminating Lunch Debt

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Kaylin Nellie Scott, a seventeen year old senior at Savannah
Arts Academy in Georgia, earned her college degree before walking
across the stage to receive her high school diploma.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
So she's a little bit of an overachiever, she said.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Once she decided to get a head start on her education,
she did a dual enrollment and decided to aim for
her associate's degree, intending to become a heart surgeon, which
is very casual now. The Savannah Arts Academy senior graduated
from Savannah State University with an Associate of Science degree
nearly a month before she even graduated high school. She

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hasn't decided where she's going to take her talents for
college to get that heart surgery degree that's the official name,
but HBCUs are her top options.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Oh wow, how was she seventeen? What the hell was
I was working at Blockbuster Video great.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Roles, don't you downplay that I did?

Speaker 1 (00:57):
And I was given Hot Gros free movies.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
You were taking money to the bank and with no
security in retrospect.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
It was just so stupid.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
You learn a seventeen year old kid make thousand dollars.
Several thousand dollars cast drops. You're letting a seventeen year
old kid run anything. That's how much damn money Blockbuster
was making. They didn't even know. A fifth grade student
in Missouri named Dakin dak Em.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
I'm not sure if I've ever heard that name.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Dakha raise enough money this year to pay off his
entire school's meal debts. After finding out that some schools
didn't allow students to attend prom or walk their graduation,
a student decided that he wanted to help. His mother
shared a video of him on Facebook asking friends and
family and other students to help pay off meal debts
for everybody in the school. His goal was to raise
thirty five hundred bucks, but after getting donations from all

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over the country, he raised seventy three hundred in just
two weeks. The school offered him his own award of
graduation this past week, and we'll give out the honor
each year to his two who does something to make
a positive impact in the community. So that's why you
have lunch debt, you can't graduate. That's crazy, yeah, But
then this dude's out here saving a day