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TULARE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Math people is not everyone's favorite, but astatine Cherry Middle School, 1 pupil is making it thing to look guardant to.
Haylee Castro is turning disorder into assurance and showing her classmates however to find solutions successful and retired of the classroom.
For Castro, solving problems is not conscionable astir numbers -it's astir helping radical find solutions to their problems.
This is simply a prime that her teachers accidental makes her a earthy leader.
"She's an exceptional person. Exceptional," said Michael Roberts, a teacher. "All her peers truly respect her."
And erstwhile the mathematics gets confusing, Castro turns to drama -a look everyone tin appreciate.
"She's conscionable similar a, she's a truly bully idiosyncratic and she's ever like, consenting to assistance anyone, adjacent like, she doesn't cognize them," said Shady Lynn Jones, an eighth grader. " She's conscionable like, truly funny."
For Castro, problem-solving is everywhere.
It's what motivates her pb done beardown character, whether it's successful the classroom, connected signifier oregon connected the field.
"I'm 1 of the leads successful the schoolhouse play," she said. "I'm besides the skipper of the colour guard. Um, there's a fewer more... It's benignant of conscionable solving equations and uncovering my ain mode to observe life."
Her teachers accidental Castro's determination and bosom person made her a relation exemplary for the full school.
"Everything she's progressive in, she assumes a enactment role. So, it's a pleasance to person her, and I'm truly looking guardant to her aboriginal success, proceeding about," said Roberts.
But for now, Castro is contented helping her classmates lick problems astatine Cherry Middle School.
