Barnstable Patriot excerpt:
… When he was a seventh grader, he was water boy for the Sandwich High team and was headed to high school there, before his parents urged him to consider St. John Paul II.
“I didn’t want to come here at first, but it turned out to be the best thing for me,” he said. “I was never good when it came to learning in big groups, but here I have been getting a lot of support for my academics and doing very well.”
The study skills have paid off. Jack has been able to raise his grade point average to a level where he’s considering such schools as Merrimack, Stonehill, St. Anselm, St. Michael’s, Assumption and the University of New Hampshire.
“Don’t take high school sports for granted,” he said…