By Thomas Sellers Jr.
Three Millington Middle School alumni made the trip a few miles away from Homer Skelton Ford – Millington to pay a visit to their old stomping grounds. The trio of Heather Williams, Becky Payne and Maurice Jones joined their boss Randy Hart to pay the current student body of Millington Middle School $1,000 for its TNReady Level 5 achievement from testing during the 2017-18 school year. Level 5 is the highest a school can achieve with Millington Middle School reaching that status with a 5 in Math, 5 in Reading, Language and Arts, and 3 in Science. “I really appreciate all your hard work,” Hart addressed the student during the assembly Friday afternoon. “You don’t really know what this means to Millington. Our school system controls what happens in this town. We want to get our school system to where it’s with Germantown, Collierville and others. Level 5 means we’re there. “Y’all, the teachers and everyone here has done an excellent job,” he continued. “What happens is when you get yourself a good education, you can get a good job like these young ladies and this young man have like Heather, Becky and Reesy. They all work at Homer Skelton Ford and they’re some of my best employees. That is what happens when you get a good education.” Millington Middle School Principal Selina Sparkman said Hart and Ford’s gesture will inspire the Stallion family to continue the successful trend this upcoming April when testing for the 2018-19 school year takes place. “To be recognized by such a large organization as Homer Skelton Ford, I think it is definitely rewarding to them,” she said. “We’ve never had a donation to celebrate our students before. You can tell they were very excited about that. We’ve had pizza parties and those types of things.
“But with a $1,000, we can do so many types of things,” Sparkman concluded. “Not only celebrate our students but celebrate our teachers because they are the ones to help make that impact.”
