Banners Gracing the Entrance to Harding Middle School Tell Part of the Story! - Philadelphia, PA
N 40° 00.755 W 075° 04.460
18T E 493656 N 4429156
Usually in the news for something negative, Harding finally has something of which to be proud...hooray!
Waymark Code: WMDX1P
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 03/04/2012
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The building is in the Frankfort section of Philly. It is a few miles from both the Betsy Ross and Tacony-Palmyra Bridges. Because the school has struggled academically and the majority of students are below basic in reading and math, they have been assigned Empowerment School status. This means you better make improvements or else! The school district pretty much tells the school what to do, how to do and when to do it. It is not the best condition to teach in when they district is constantly on your back but I am sure they mean well.
Harding is part of a program called ArtsRising. A quick search of nearby waymarks will show an ArtsRising mural inside the school. On Friday, 2/24, three banners were hung at the main entrance of the school on Torresdale Avenue. ArtsRising is an effort to make quality arts education available for all of our children in the city. These banners are a sight to behold but just as important is what they represent. Principal Michael J. Calderone explained that the banners depict the Arts, Academics and Athletics at Harding. It is by design that the Academics banner hangs in the middle because Academics is at the center, the heart, of all that Hardings’ staff and students are achieving.