Against the Odds

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Diversity Dawn Academy is back for another year and Benjamin and Sarah are in a pickle! Between the overwhelming number of new applications the ever-snappy always obstinate school board of the Ridgefield school district and a full-blown pandemic...</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>...Yeah it's safe to say the pair's got their work cut out for them!</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Despite the chaos everything had been going swimmingly at Diversity Dawn Academy. With all-time high enrollment rates all the communal support they could ever ask for and an absolutely immaculate graduation rate everything was as perfect as could be.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That is once they were blindsided by the number of new students applying for the program. Of course that </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>would</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> have been a wonderful thing-had the number of applicants not been ten times what they could hope to house.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Evan Peters president of the Ridgefield City School Board gave them two options: either they cut the program in its entirety for it was becoming a threat to the traditional comprehensive high school or Benjamin and Sarah could find a place to accommodate all those students themselves...</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And thus Diversity Dawn High School was born!</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>From dyslexic students and those coming from neglectful parenting all the way down to victims of gang violence and those harboring suicidal thoughts the school became a safe haven for students of all sorts. Under the gentle care of their teachers and friends bit by bit the children's ailments and troubles began to ebb away.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Just when everything seemed to be going splendidly once again disaster struck when a deadly virus suddenly appeared forcing the school to shut down in-person instruction and sending the whole world into a frenzy.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Will Benjamin Sarah and all their students make it over this hurdle or will this mark the end of Diversity Dawn High School?</span></p><p><br></p>