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Texas Girl Born In Jail Graduates Top Of Class & Will Be Attending Havard
Texas Girl Born In Jail Graduates Top Of Class & Will Be Attending Havard In The Fall
A Texas girl, who was born in prison, will be attending Harvard after graduating third in her class.
Sky Castner, 18, of Montgomery County, was born in Galveston County Jail, as her mother was incarcerated at the time of her birth.
Her father would pick her up from the county jail and raised her as a single dad. ‘I was born in prison,’ reads the first line of her Harvard application letter, which she worked with a professor at Boston University to write.
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‘He helped me to tell my story in the best way possible,’ she told the Houston Chronicle.
Despite her rough beginnings, Castner will graduate third in her class from Conroe High School – north of Houston – and will attend Harvard in the fall to study law.
The young teen credits her mentor Mona Hamby, who is unrelated to the school, for her success. Castner and Hamby met when the graduate was in elementary school at Reaves Elementary school.
The young girl was an enthusiastic reader and staff thought she’d benefit from CISD’s Project Mentor program, where children in need of a little love get paired with an adult to help care and mentor with them.
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