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Holiday Hope: Mentorship fosters motivation for academic success
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Josue Ferrel, left, and Jim Sapp, his mentor, discuss motivation for school.
At the beginning, 10th-grader Josue Ferrel and Jim Sapp didn’t want to talk much. “At first I didn’t know him, so I was kind of shy,” said Josue, who has been Sapp’s mentee since the seventh grade. “I didn’t really know him, so it was different.