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MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - For galore precocious schoolhouse students, balancing academics, work, and household tin beryllium tough. But for Rebeca Torres, a elder astatine Furman High School successful Madera, it’s been a travel of perseverance.
"It's been tough, but not stoppable, I've done it," said Rebeca. "I spell to work, she has her dada to help, and past from enactment I spell to school, and bash enactment astatine location whenever I need."
At conscionable 15, Rebeca recovered retired she was pregnant; alternatively than fto this deter her, she recovered spot successful the enactment of her family, teachers, and counselors.
"Her information has taught maine much than what I did arsenic a teen mom, said Rebeca's mother, Cristina Torres, who was besides a teen mom. "With her, she works, goes to school, and provides for her daughter, I'm lone a babysitter connected Fridays, and she's a parent 24/7."
Despite the struggles, Rebeca is graduating early, and she's already reasoning ahead. She's excited to commencement her assemblage travel with plans to go an ultrasound technician.
"Now that I person her, it's similar there's nary clip to wait. She needs worldly that she wants successful the future. She's going to privation these Coach bags, each these different bags similar and I privation to get them for her," said Rebeca.
For Rebeca, being a parent has been her biggest motivator. With emotion and support,t she's defying the likelihood and paving the mode for a brighter aboriginal for some her and her daughter.
"She's precise mature, she's a junior, but her maturity level is beyond," said schoolhouse counsellor Linh Phasakem. "If she were to commencement successful college, I judge that she would beryllium precise successful."
