Graduation at the Charter School of Wilmington. In recent years, state data show, about 20 percent of such teenagers did not. Its goal was to get all high-school seniors with an SAT score of at least a 1,500 (out of 2,400) on the SAT to enroll in college. Nye lives in the state that has arguably become the most aggressive at trying to ensure that its college-ready teenagers attend college.Īround the same time that she was turning her attention to college applications, Delaware’s governor, Jack Markell, announced a program called Getting to Zero. She knew her parents - a dental assistant and a hairdresser, neither of whom had attended college - would have a hard time paying the nearly $100 application fee to elite colleges, let alone the tuition.įortunately, Ms. The notion of attending anything other than a local college seemed too far-fetched. When her senior year of high school in Wilmington, Del., started about nine months ago, she had dreams of becoming a chemical engineer.īut she did not spend much time dreaming about where she would go to college. “The last day of school was the last day of her life.Sydney Nye was a straight-A student with an SAT score high enough to apply to any college in the country. “The last thing she said to me was, ‘Don’t say goodbye, say I’ll see you tomorrow,”‘ said 15-year-old Amanda Fairbanks. On Thursday, Shawntae’s friends all remembered that she would not let them say goodbye as they left for summer. “She was just the perfect person,” said Kris Koontz, a mutual friend of Shawntae and McBride’s.
Shawntae loved to go there and showcase her dancing skills. These two groups of friends were linked after McBride and Shawntae met at the Sundance Steakhouse & Saloon – a Fort Collins club that holds a teen night on Sundays. But he said that would not have been related to the crash. … This is a real wake-up call for us about seat belts and everything.”įahl said the drug paraphernalia authorities found in the car were likely a “bong,” or a pipe for smoking marijuana. “We’re just thinking about all of them,” Fahl said. And a large group of friends had planned a bash for McBride’s birthday next month that coincides with the Summer Jam concert at Red Rocks. McBride’s brother, Seth, soon will be deployed to Iraq, and the family planned to visit him before he left. Later, a group a friends from Berthoud High School visited the site to pay similar respects to Shawntae and their classmates.įahl said McBride, his close friend, had a big summer in the works. It just shows you, you should choose your friends wisely.” “Just to know what her last moments were like was really important,” Boyd said later. They even spoke to Stephanie Bender, who witnessed the crash from her home. The group pinned Shawntae’s dance slippers to a nearby telephone pole. The two girls were among about 20 who visited the crash site Thursday. “I never really said goodbye to her … just, ‘Call you later.”‘īoyd said Shawntae was always making jokes, doing whatever she could to get her friends – or anyone else – to smile. “I think we are still in shock,” Stutzman said. Crash ended high school dreams – The Denver Post
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