JAE
THIrD GRADE at AF NORTH BROOKLYN PREP ELEMENTARY
To talk to Jae is to hear from someone who wants to embrace the whole world. He’s hungry for the knowledge it has to offer. If you ask him his favorite subject in school, he names four. There is too much for him to learn in math, writing, humanities and science for him to choose a single preference. He’s focused on showing empathy and love to everyone he knows, and on treating others the right way. His favorite thing about himself is that he’s kind to other people, and, he adds, that is something he will never change about himself as he gets older. Jae is a kid who cares about people he knows, and about people he hasn’t yet met. He cares about his community, about identifying what it needs and how he can help the people around him. As a third grader, he already knows the kind of father and co-worker he wants to be someday—one who is fair, honest, and kind. He cares about his AF North Brooklyn Prep Elementary school community, a caring group of people who helped him to continue to love his classes throughout a year of remote learning. And he cares about making an impact on the world by continuing to be a good person, and one day by pursuing a career he loves. As he dives into extra math studies – he especially loves subtraction—he’s thinking about future work in coding video games, fixing bugs to improve gameplay. That’s just one more way Jae plans to make the world around him better.
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