ABOUT
MISSION STATEMENT & OVERVIEW​
Objective
To educate the character, encourage self-less service, and build the self-esteem of our high achievers
Mission Statement
Achievement through perseverance, hard work and attitude.
Overview of M.O.E.S
Mentoring Organization for Exceptional students is a program created to empower our young adults, stimulate their minds, build self-esteem and prepare them for numerous future successes. We pride ourselves on setting the standard in the school as well as in the community. M.O.E.S’s goal is to assist students with the comprehension that this world is our world and if you don’t take care of it and the people in it, then nobody will. We want to build the leaders of tomorrow by equipping them with the necessary tools to exceed all expectations and triumph over all trials and tribulations that will be placed in front of them in the future. Each school that adopts this organization can have two houses (one for boys and one for girls) that will look at each other as brother and sister. This will ignite a higher level of respect for the opposite gender. After becoming official members of this organization, students will partake in two social events and two community service projects (volunteering at a retirement home, animal shelter, picking up around the school or anything else that requires our attention) per semester. They will also conduct one mandatory meeting a month.
HISTORY OF M.O.E.S
The history of the Mentoring Organization for Exceptional Students (M.O.E.S) dates back to September 2014 at a small neighborhood school known as Wares Ferry Road School in Montgomery, Alabama (home of the Civil Rights Movement). Originally the program was proposed as an all-boys program that would essentially be used to alter a troubled child’s mindset. However, while viewing other programs Donte Todd noticed the lack of organizations used to create a sense of fellowship amongst various schools, genders, and grades. Therefore, as an intern he begun to think on a larger scale. Soon after coming to the realization of these notions, his fellow colleague mentioned the subject of “children and middle school.” His rebuttal in the debate was that “In order to remove the possibilities of children acknowledging and committing unlawful actions then we must replace the idea with another idea that forces them to be so arrogant and headstrong in their thinking that they feel as though the wrong act to perpetrate, is beneath them.” According to Erik Erikson (Psych socialist), “students begin to develop a sense of identity when they begin Junior high school. This creates serious psychosocial problems for adolescents.” The beginning of M.O.E.S received numerous negative responses, before acknowledging three positive responses. After, finally receiving faculty assistance (Natalie D. Smith, Gerod Diggs, and Toni Turner) and through all the negativity, the first houses of M.O.E.S was functioning and surpassing all reasonable and unreasonable predictions. The first showcase for the twenty-four (ten boys and fourteen girls) exceptional students was November 14, 2014. After seeing this impeccable demonstration. He knew this was going to exceed all and anybody’s expectations.
In 2019, the Mentoring Organization for Exceptional Students went through a revamping period. After nearly being closed indefinitely by the founder, it was decided that the program would not be dismantled, but the complete opposite. While initiating redirection the founder spoke with his closet house leaders (Shamiya Hicks, Keishanna Wright, and Donnell Warren) regarding their opinion of the next progression. It was then decided to officially broaden the spectrum from 3rd-5th to 3rd -8th grade. It was also decided to eliminate the elaborate showcase at the end of M.O.E.S (M. Classes) classes in an effort to place more of a focal point on the objective and mission statement of the program. As M.O.E.S continues to move forward in the next decade, we are hopeful that are our objective of educating the character, encouraging self-less service, and building the self-esteem of our high achievers will continue.