This past summer, as most teenagers enjoyed a break from school, going to the beach, sleeping late, working local jobs – a group of Virginia Beach high schoolers went to Panama, helping at a health clinic and a rural school.
It’s part of a program aimed at supplying the students with a real-world education on real-world issues.
“The whole point of this is to get the students out into the real world,” said chaperone and Green Run Collegiate teacher Homer Babbit. “It’s a right for students to get a real-world education, so taking students from a fully developed country like the United States and taking them to a less developed country like Panama to get the real-world experience.”…