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BIXBY, Okla. — "It's a truly bully programme for kids that privation a vocation base."
Dea Nettles, the FFA, and Bixby High School enactment manus successful manus making a quality successful the lives of students and helping them succeed.
"Everyone is truly conscionable determination for each other," Kennedy Adams, a elder astatine Bixby High School said. "You cognize that you tin number connected anyone, immoderate clip and they volition beryllium determination for you."
Mr. Nettles keeps his FFA students precise engaged with the Tulsa State Fair, "Jackpot" shows, a autumn amusement season, past code contests and equine judging contests successful the spring.
"Then we spell into purchasing caller animals for the adjacent autumn amusement season," Nettle said.
Born connected a workplace and raised astir agriculture, Mr. Nettles knew astatine an aboriginal property what his beingness would beryllium like.
"I knew that's what I wanted to do," helium said. "I knew that I wanted to thatch kids."
And helium spends each time preparing them for the future.
"They whitethorn spell connected to vocation tech and go welders, whitethorn go veterinarians, they whitethorn go lawyers," Mr. Nettles said.
Bixby's main says the caller nonaccomplishment of an FFA serviceman aft a agelong unwellness devastated the school, truthful grief counselors were brought successful to help. And says those students were much disquieted astir however Mr. Nettles was handling the decease than themselves.
Principal Terry Adams says it speaks to the extent of the relationships Mr. Nettles has built with students and staff.
"Those kids are the ones that are the life-blood of this program," Mr. Nettle said. "They support maine going, they support maine young, they support maine doing what I do."
And the kids accidental the aforesaid astir Mr. Neettles.
"My favourite happening would beryllium probably, Mr. Nettles and conscionable however helium brings each of america retired of our small bubble and we each bash a clump of things and learn," said Christine Lundy, a senior.
"He's coached maine done truthful galore experiences that I've had to spell done during precocious schoolhouse and I truly don't deliberation I could person done it without him," said Kennedy Adams.
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