help the school achieve an A rating<\/a>. Dworzanski admitted the challenge was no small feat for him.<\/p>\n ![\"Harns](\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\")
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“I’m extremely afraid of heights, and I don’t even like flying,” he said. “It’s one of those one-and-done types of things that I did for my students.”<\/p>\n
The school has shown steady improvement over the past three years. Three years ago, Harns Marsh Middle School was a C-rated school, then improved to a B last year.<\/p>\n
“This year we’re hoping we got that A,” Dworzanski said.<\/p>\n
Students said they gave it their all this year to make the dare a reality.<\/p>\n
“I try our best, definitely,” student Edgar Rodriguez said. “I was definitely like trying really, really hard. I studied for the first time, you know. We wanted to make it happen.”<\/p>\n
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Their hard work appears to have paid off. Preliminary data shows the school has reached A status, though it still needs to be ratified by the state.<\/p>\n
“Our students have scored the highest in school history, and I am sure that we’re going to get that A,” Dworzanski said.<\/p>\n
For Dworzanski, the achievement represents more than just a letter grade.<\/p>\n
“This signifies our students being ready for high school and beyond,” he said.<\/p>\n
Students said they appreciated their principal’s commitment to motivating them.<\/p>\n
“We really appreciate how our principal does entertaining and fun things to make us try our best, and you know, encourage us to push forward,” student Ariadna Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n
The school district expects to know whether Harns Marsh Middle School is officially an A-rated school by this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, (WINK) \u2014A principal conquered his fear of heights by jumping out of a plane after his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,853,28,120690],"class_list":["post-284073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-charlotte-county","tag-florida","tag-harns-marsh-middle-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}