SOUTH = FAMILY
Excerpt from www.Omaha.com article by Erin Grace (5/18/13)
Grace: Omaha South 'one big family'
There's a word heard around Omaha South High a lot these days. And it's not “soccer.” Nor “champions.”
It's not “enrollment,” as in capped this year at 2,222 with some 160 incoming freshmen for next fall turned away.
It's not “scholarships,” as in more Buffett full-rides to college than distributed at any other Nebraska high school.
It's not stereotypes, as in the idea that you can't be both poor and successful.
No, the word you hear over and over at South seems to have nothing to do with the ascendency of an inner-city Omaha high school that has captured our attention and our hearts.
And yet maybe it has everything to do with what is happening as the school racks up wins on and off the soccer field.
Because the word said all the time at South, by everyone from Principal Cara Riggs to soccer hero Sayeg Moreno, is “family.”
Family, family, family.
Grace: Omaha South 'one big family'
There's a word heard around Omaha South High a lot these days. And it's not “soccer.” Nor “champions.”
It's not “enrollment,” as in capped this year at 2,222 with some 160 incoming freshmen for next fall turned away.
It's not “scholarships,” as in more Buffett full-rides to college than distributed at any other Nebraska high school.
It's not stereotypes, as in the idea that you can't be both poor and successful.
No, the word you hear over and over at South seems to have nothing to do with the ascendency of an inner-city Omaha high school that has captured our attention and our hearts.
And yet maybe it has everything to do with what is happening as the school racks up wins on and off the soccer field.
Because the word said all the time at South, by everyone from Principal Cara Riggs to soccer hero Sayeg Moreno, is “family.”
Family, family, family.