LEBANON — Willow Raymond and her mother, Crystal Kerin-Herrick, sat in a classroom Friday morning at Ledyard Charter School eating brunch prepared by the 10th grader’s peers.
Raymond, 15, is in her second year at Ledyard and her favorite subject is history. Like her schoolmates, she started attending the charter school after struggling in traditional public schools in the Upper Valley.
“I am definitely a person with a lot of anxiety,” said Raymond, of Canaan, who began ninth grade at Lebanon High School before transferring. “It wasn’t a good fit for me.”
But Ledyard has been — for both mother and daughter. Raymond in particular likes the extra time teachers take to help students.
“We definitely exhausted all our other options before coming here,” Kerin-Herrick said.
Like her daughter, Kerin-Herrick has been most impressed by Ledyard’s educators.
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