{"id":605,"date":"2018-07-13T22:35:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T22:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madd.org\/south-carolina\/?p=605"},"modified":"2022-05-27T10:03:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T10:03:35","slug":"poy-reaching-students-through-summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madd.org\/south-carolina\/poy-reaching-students-through-summer-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"POY Reaching Students Through Summer Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"605\" class=\"elementor elementor-605\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-10769e6c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"10769e6c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-51d6cc7\" data-id=\"51d6cc7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34970edc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"34970edc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-606 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/south-carolina\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2022\/05\/POY-VS-300x250-300x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"249\">On July 5<sup>th<\/sup> MADD staff, Ashley Merrick and Kelly Stafford, spoke to 6<sup>th<\/sup> &#8211; 8<sup>th<\/sup> graders at Chicora Elementary School in North Charleston, SC. Carlton Holland leads a group of youth in a summer literacy program known as Freedom School. The group was reading a book called <em>Tears of a Tiger. <\/em> The book makes reference to underage drinking, and driving while intoxicated. Carlton contacted his MADD Victim Advocate, Kelly Stafford, to arrange an underage drinking presentation for his students.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Carlton came to MADD after his younger brother, Myles Holland, was killed by an alleged drunk driver in November 2017. Carlton takes any opportunity he can to spread MADD\u2019s mission in the hopes of saving lives. Carlton began the presentation by telling the students about his brother Myles and the importance of riding with a sober driver.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley presented MADD\u2019s Power of Youth to the students and they interacted well. The students listened as parents, who lost a child to underage drinking, shared their stories by video. 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