Winning With Dignity

This Book tells the story of Clarke Simone Winters, a well-bred, well-educated teen with an over-inflated ego and untamed tongue. What begins as an attempt to educate her sheltered, borderline racist teacher, in African culture and achievement turns spins out of control and lands her in hot water with her teacher, principal, and her mother. Her mother, in attempt to teach Clarke a lesson, sentences her to a day of in-school-suspension to be served at one of the toughest public high schools in the area, Strong High School. Fear and dread silences the usually loquacious Clarke long enough to learn that education and knowledge are the great equalizers and good friends, intelligence, and competition can be found in all neighborhoods. Her expanded horizons and friendships are finally threatened by a tragic set of events that sets all that has been learned in jeopardy. Clarke, however, has one more lesson to give and she delivers it to the one who set this journey of enlightenment and service into motion, her mother.