Although Tyler Rodriguez could have gone home to Chester High School, he opted for the foundation's solution and entered Shippensburg University as an Advanced Placement high school student in fall 2009, reasoning that either way he would be thrust into an environment with strangers during a critical point in his education.
He came to Scotland School for Veterans' Children as an eighth-grade student after finishing the seventh grade at Smedley Middle School, mostly because he didn't want to attend Chester High School, which had class sizes ranging from 30 to 50-plus students and test scores well below the state average. The school was also experiencing some incidents of violence.
As a seventh-grader he asked his mother, Katie Rodriguez of Chester, to search for some alternatives "in case things did not improve at the high school." One of her co-workers suggest SSVC.
"Towards the end of (7th grade) I heard of multiple fights at Chester High, and in the end that was what made up my mind as there was no guarantee that things would improve by the time I got there," he said.
He decided not to wait until he was a high school freshman, but instead applied for admission at SSVC and was accepted as an eighth-grader.
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