Your Character Matters: Porterville Military Academy student aims to become pilot

PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KSEE) – Andrew Dohnke has ne'er been that into sports but that does not mean helium is not a engaged student.

“I’m portion of the drill accumulation team, the marksmen squad I americium really inferior people president, I’m the book nine president, CSF, pupil council,” Andrew said.

Andrew is simply a inferior astatine the Porterville Military Academy, a schoolhouse helium chose to spell to due to the fact that helium has his eyes successful the entity and connected the future.

“They person the aviation pathway. There’s uniforms, it teaches structure, discipline, respect, and I conscionable thought I can’t walk that up," Andrew said.

He is connected his mode to becoming a aviator pursuing the bequest of his large grandfather, a aviator successful WWII. His teachers accidental Andrew is connected his mode to creating a bequest of his own.

“In each the 3 years that I’ve known him nary substance what concern that he’s successful helium ever displays the aforesaid character,” said Destiney Warren, English teacher astatine Porterville Military Academy.

Through Andrew’s enactment positions successful school, his subject skills training, oregon extracurriculars, his level of respect for everyone, careless of rank, remains the same.

“He makes it truly casual to beryllium a teacher,” Warren said.

Respect for everyone astir him and for the enactment it volition instrumentality to execute his goals is wherefore KSEE24 is arrogant to admit Andrew Dohnke.

“Every clip we measurement into the schoolroom it’s america deciding to marque our ain change. Once we leave
Porterville Military Academy, we’ll beryllium capable to alteration the world,” Andrew said.