Your Own Pace, Your Own Path: A Look Inside The NET Gentilly The NET Gentilly HS 2026 Show Transcript I feel like the net made me more focused because I feel like we do get a lot of Independence here to you know do what we need to do for ourselves so I feel like it made me a little bit more focused as far as um pushing myself towards graduation and I was looking around I was doing my research and I seen the net and then I seen the internships that they provide and that's what kind of encouraged me to come here and kind of push ahead and accelerate the nudging till it would be a good opportunity for students especially so if they don't like a big crowd the teachers have personally helped me by letting me have my own space I work better when I'm alone when I get really focused and have peace and quiet our mission at the any Gentilly is to ensure that we're preparing all of our students for their next steps so graduating with their high school diploma whatever career or college choice they may have and making sure they're prepared with all of the skills that they need for whatever their next steps are they don't leave how they come and that's my favorite part and I mean that in the most positive way a lot of students their I'm going to say their family other schools have written them off um there's like no hope for some of them and what we do as a school we make sure that they're that they can succeed so the best of our ability um we do when I say we go above and beyond to make sure that they're at school and make sure so that they can graduate if that's calling them if that's picking them up if that's texting you doing the weekend to make sure that you're good we do we do all that we're we're trying to make sure that the students could make it whether they're in this building or outside of this building you know people here that can help you with opportunities career opportunities like if you want to be a nurse they have opportunities for that here we lead with love we teach with love support and care for all of our students because when they succeed we succeed other schools in New Orleans are typically like 30 students in the classroom I feel like work wise you can't get much done and when you're in the normal school the teachers don't have the resources to focus on just you if you need help by yourself so you could get Left Behind um everybody can work at their own pace here so cuz at bigger schools it's kind of just a lot going on in this when I think about our students and staff uh at the net Gentilly I think about 1 of my favorite quotes by assata Shakur it is our duty to fight for our freedom it is our duty to win we must love and protect each other we have nothing to lose but our chains so at the median Tilly we make sure that we provide every effort for our student to remove those chains and those barriers so that they can be successful