Enhancing the intellectual reasoning, concept, and theories of our community 65 student athlete at a time.
Peggy Mitchell Peterman University (PMPU) is the first private high school with an athletics program in South St Petersburg, FL . The school currently accepting students in the 8th, 9th and 10th grades.
Painting the pictures of black people’s hopes, dreams, triumphs, tragedies, and successes, is the statement that comes to mind immediately when thinking of lifetime achievements of Peggy Peterman. Reporting the truth through the eyes of justice by giving the community stories that needed to be heard, Peggy Peterman urged the balancing of black life in the newspaper. She once stated, “My ambition as a journalist was always to help the public understand who and what the African American family and culture was all about.” This can be seen as she brushed pictures of words that helped readers gain historical, cultural and spiritual knowledge. Being a woman of distinction she never rested, always in support of many causes and pursued a plethora of dreams. The Black underclass is particularly at risk of developing behaviors and attitudes that promote educational and social isolation. This situation has become characteristic of America’s inner city black youth. Education as the great arbiter of social mobility seems to be less true for America’s most vulnerable Black students. Low-income Black students graduate high school at a much lower rate than their middle-to upper-income counterparts. This statistic prompts the examination of low-income (vulnerable) students and their high school educational outcomes.
• The Peggy Mitchell Peterman University is the private school for the black males. This can be seen as a way to engage the students mind, body, and spiritual being, by addressing the dreadful graduating rate of black males in St. Petersburg.
• The university will increase the educational attainment with high teacher expectations, excellent academic preparation for college-level work, and constructing a culturally responsive campus environment. Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays six president of Morehouse College stated in the Rebel, “It is conceivable, therefore, that some American youth, confused and frustrated, may get a glimmer of hope and go forth to accomplish something worthwhile in life in spite of the system.”
• Messaging, mentoring, monitoring, ministering, and money are the practices that will be engaged to responsibly improve life prospects for black boys and young black men.
• Providing positive success messaging;
• Group mentoring;
• careful monitoring of progress;
• Compassionate ministering when wounds must be addressed;
• And the strategic investment of money to support academic progress work will establish the conceptual understanding to become the flower that erects from the concrete. Peggy Mitchell Peterman University
• Focuses on Black History
• Advancing education,
• Intellectual reasoning and analytical test taking skills (ACT & SAT)
• Life skills and workforce development,
• Using collaborative efforts to improve the overall quality of life for residents in the surrounding area. Youth from the Childs Park area will feed into the school. Using sports and academia as the carrot to engage black male student athletes to learn and improve the overall quality of their future. This can be seen as the student will receive a consistent stream of messaging, mentoring, monitoring, and ministering. It was the founder father of the Illustrious Tuskegee University Booker T. Washington that stated, “Cast down your buckets and use your resources.” Moreover, it is with great admiration and excitement that we continue to meet the trials and tribulations of black life head on, by remembering this fighter for justice and balance. It is with great excitement that the implementation of the Peggy Mitchell Peterman University has been implemented.
