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16.01.2014, 08:56

Jericho Christian closes high school

Jericho Christian closes high school
With the closing of its high school and middle schools effective at the end of the 2008 09 school year, Jericho Christian Academy in Landover also has dropped its athletic program.
The school offered several sports such as volleyball and track and field, and its girls and boys basketball programs enjoyed increasing success over the past few years.
of the economic situation, we had to cut back, said Betty Peebles,nike Steelers jerseys free shipping, the senior pastor and administrator, and a co founder of Jericho Christian. are retrenching right now in order to enrich our age 2 through fifth grade. We are trying to regroup so we can get back to our core mission. said Jericho Christian was forced to make an economic The school could not afford to pay its teachers in grades six through 12. Peebles declined to provide enrollment figures, but said the school has fewer students at the middle and high school levels than it does in its early childhood development and elementary programs.
did everything we could do to hold on, said Peebles. have been carrying on [with the declining economy] for a long time. Shelley Evans took over Jericho girls basketball team last winter and guided it to a 26 5 record and a perfect 12 0 in its second season as part of the Independent Schools Athletic League. The team was 30 7 in the previous two seasons under Devone Williams.
One of Evans players, senior power forward/center Parress Davis, month to play basketball at Bethune Cookman University, becoming the first athlete to receive an athletic scholarship.
Boys basketball coach Reggie Williams, who played 11 seasons in the NBA,Cheap NFL Jerseys, guided the Lions to a 24 6 mark last season, while the boys JV team was 26 1. Evans and Reggie Williams declined to comment on the school move. Tony Reynolds, an assistant under Williams, said the news was surprise, a shock all of a sudden. and I] were there three years and we had things moving in the right direction, Reynolds said. almost beat Montrose Christian twice. And we did beat Riverdale Baptist by 20 [in 2008]. We were doing the program the right way. But right now, everyone is scrambling. who founded the church in the District in 1969 with her late husband, Bishop James Peebles Sr., said the church moved to Landover 11 years ago. That same year, it early childhood development program.Re;ated Articles:

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