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By David Stephens
Hometown News
Boiling Springs ninth - grade student Esther Karpets shows the 74 books she read during the just - completed school year in the READissance program.
When Sally Hursey was a media specialist at Boiling Springs High School in 2002 she became concerned that high school students were not reading very much so she did something about it. Hursey began a voluntary reading program called READissance that took off and achieved some of the results she wanted to see in increasing students reading. When Hursey took over the media specialist position for the 2008-2009 school years at the ninth grade campus she brought her innovative program with her.
After putting the program in place that school year the program exploded with success in the just completed 2009-2010 year. For the term 508 ninth - graders read 2,204 books and 549,798 pages. 107 students read nine books or more.
For the rest of the story, see this week’s Boiling Springs Sentry.
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