FFA students from Pershing Continuation High recognized, given personalized jackets

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Students from Pershing Continuation High School strolled into the Fresno City Council chambers successful their slacks, buttons ups and ties.

The sophomores, juniors and seniors are portion of the school's Future Famers of America programme and were downtown to beryllium recognized by Councilmember Tyler Maxwell.

"Future Famers of America is an astonishing enactment that gives young people, students successful precocious school, opportunities and tools that they request to get progressive with agriculture," Maxwell said.

Students successful immoderate FFA programme tin beryllium easy identified by their contention jacket.

But immoderate students from Pershing didn't person jackets of their own.

"Our section has astir 20 jackets of assorted sizes, some lad sizes and miss sizes," Agriculture teacher Collin Parker said. "And truthful they would get that from the chapter, but they had to instrumentality it."

That changed Thursday, erstwhile Maxwell, successful concern with the Central Unified School District, gave each of the 10 students a overgarment to keep.

"We wanted them to person personalized jackets truthful that they proceed to beryllium arrogant of the enactment that they do, proceed to beryllium arrogant of our cultivation roots present successful the metropolis of Fresno and wanted them to person thing peculiar to instrumentality home," Maxwell said.

Students similar Jenixza De Jesus wasted nary clip successful putting it on.

"It's my archetypal year, and having my sanction engraved successful a overgarment feels amazing," De Jesus said.

Jenixza says that joining FFA has been transformative for her by teaching her nationalist speaking skills and helping her interruption retired of her shell.

"Learning much astir FFA has helped maine marque much friends, larn much astir FFA and personally conscionable improving my speech," De Jesus said.

She and different students person created a schoolhouse nursery, planted effect trees and person turned an unused warehouse into a woodshop.

Agriculture Teacher Collin Parker says they are 1 of lone 2 continuation schools successful the authorities with a broad FFA program.

He hopes students having their ain jackets volition bring them a consciousness of belonging.

"The FFA overgarment has conscionable been a awesome of what they've learned, what they've experienced successful FFA, truthful the information that our students get to support that is conscionable perfectly huge," Parker said.

The students volition get to deterioration their personalized jackets astatine a fewer upcoming events, arsenic good arsenic astatine the FFA Conference successful Sacramento successful April.

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