By Aimee Brandon Posted October 15, 2014
Kelly Malan, a Lowry High School graduate was at Lowry on October 7 with the mines to talk to students about the future.
“We are with Newmont and Barrick just talking to students about the importance of staying in school,” said Kelly Malan.
Malan became pregnant with her first child her senior year of high school, but instead of dropping out for a year and redoing her senior year, she attended the PASS program and graduated with her class. In the presentation, they hoped to bring students to the realization that what you do after high school matters.
“There is kind of a stigma I think some people think they’re going to go to high school and then just go work at the mines once they’re done with high school or even that they can drop out of high school and go work at the mines. And maybe back ten or twenty days ago that was the case so we’re here just to really make sure everyone knows the importance of staying in school, furthering your education if they want a career in the mining industry or really in any industry. I don’t have a lot of education after high school. We’re mostly here to just show them the importance of it. We want kids to know that they need to stay in school, they need to graduate. Lowry’s graduation rate is 60 percent to 70 percent somewhere in there and as a community that shouldn’t be acceptable to us we should strive for more,” said Malan.
