He came home from his first day saying, “If I had not been shot, paralyzed, and had to be in a wheelchair, it would have been a perfect school day - but it was a really great day! I loved it,” according to the family’s statement. Highland Park High School is ranked within the bottom 50 of all 8,043 schools in Texas (based off of combined math and reading proficiency testing data) for the 2018-19 school year. The family shared a mix of emotions from celebrating a milestone for the eight year-old starting a new school year to remembering the trauma they’ve gone through the past few months.Ĭooper is also recognizing he won’t be able to socialize and participate in activities he once loved, like hanging on the monkey bars, sliding down the slide and kicking the ball, the family statement said. “It’s an incredible milestone for a little boy who almost three months to the day of his first day of third grade had been desperately fighting for his life from critical gunshot wounds and is now wheelchair-bound,” the Roberts family said. No person shall, on the basis of age, race. 501 is committed to affirmative action and equal opportunity. The Topeka Public Schools, Unified School District No. (A historical marker located in Landover. Facebook Page Twitter Feed Instagram Feed We Support Equal Opportunities. ( WGN) - Eight-year-old Cooper Roberts, paralyzed after being shot during the Highland Park July 4th parade shooting, has returned to school after months of rehabilitation and transitioning.ĭespite returning to school to start third grade, he remains in therapy each week and is still in a slow and gradual process of recovery, according to a statement from the Roberts family. Built in 1928, Highland Park was the second high school for African Americans in Prince Georges County, Maryland.
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