Anthony Beat the Statistics: The Truth About Foster Care Youth Graduation Rates
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Watch as we celebrate Anthony's incredible journey as he beats the odds and graduates high school today. Despite facing challenges, he persevered and achieved this significant milestone. Join us in congratulating Anthony on this remarkable achievement and get inspired by his determination and hard work. Don't miss this heartwarming graduation story!
You should be very proud of yourself Anthony!! Your UA-cam family is!! 🏆
Sooooooooo proud 😊
Maybe Anthony is encouraged to be successful in school because of his Dad’s (Peter’s) example.
If I remember correctly from reading his book “Now I Am Known”, Peter had run away from an extremely abusive father and lived as a street-child in a big city. He started school as a teenager when a kind successful family offered him a chance to escape the homelessness of life on the streets, and offered him an opportunity to attend school. From that point on, with the kindness of this family that “rescued” him as a teen from his homeless life, Peter successfully advanced in his education.
If I remember correctly, he accomplished getting 2 college degrees, “two 4 year degrees” (Bachelor? Degrees) and spent the next 18 or 20 years employed by Children’s Advocacy Organizations helping needy children, in many countries around the world.
Now as a Foster Dad and Father of 3 adopted children who were initially Foster children in his care, he is changing lives, nurturing them, “pointing” them toward success. They are following Peter’s example.
Now HOORAY for
Excellent Anthony!
He is a 2024 High School Graduate. 👏🏼APPLAUSE👏🏼
Thanks for this great acknowledgment and the history. So inspiring!!
This is amazing to see the reward of your hard work Peter. It is a milestone in your life and Anthony's, and to have Zay there for the special occasion, is even greater. I was subscribed for a while, but when I see this video pop up in my UA-cam chnnels , I was surprised to see that I was not subscribed anymore, so I subscribed again. I am so happy for your sons to see them do good and hope that they succeed in life with your help and support. Congratulations Peter, well done Anthony. I hope you are able to inspire Zay to follow his dreams as well.
Anthony has acquired a lot of the same great characteristics of Peter. He is sweet, thoughtful, caring but also funny and quirky on his own. What a precious and handsome young man, congrats Anthony❤
Yaaah Anthony ❤❤former foster youth on my 3rd college degree. Yes we can beat the odds!!!!
Three degrees is spectacular for anyone, but to manage defy odds that were totally outside of your control (eg as former foster youth) is so special. Massive congratulations!! 🎉🎉
Wishing you every success with your latest degree. I hope it leads you to a career that fulfils your very obvious potential and delivers the best life possible. You've clearly worked incredibly hard - you deserve the best life has to offer.
Sent with love from the UK 💖🇬🇧
@t-and-p Thankyou so much!!!
Congratulations
Way to go Deborah!!!❤
Your Bond With Anthony is the Relationship every parent wishes to have with their children..
BEST FRIEND 4-Life!
Peter's tears of joy brought tears to my eyes. Congratulations Anthony!
Sometimes I wish youd found someone to marry and have had a bunch of kids.. BUT God knows best.. He worked in the mess to creat you.. a savior to young children and a father to many. Every time I hear the kids say "daddy" I smile. Someday it will be gramps.
Congratulations to all of you.
Anthony, here’s to a bigger brighter future!
Here! Here!! 🍾🥂
Or someone who would share all of it.
He's perfect the way he is!
It's funny how most people that say this is when its a single male raising children but when its a female everyone is cautious about men being in the household, I'm glad he doesn't just meet anybody and bring them into his home with his kids, its good to be cautious of females too, so it's no rush, that may come in the future, only time will tell.
Unbelievable - that sweet 11 year old has certainly grown up. Congratulations Anthony 🎉. You’re awesome!!!
Anthony is what you call an 'Old Soul'. His emotional and spiritual maturity is a bit beyond his years, even though he might not be quite cognizant of his spiritual side yet. And I am not necessarily referring to religion here. But this kid has both feet solidly planted on the ground. Yes, he will make mistakes like the rest of us. But he is mature for his age. He's solid. And he appreciates his Dad so very much. Of course, all of Peter's children do. But there's something about Mr. ANTHONY. Good things are waiting for him if he stays focused. ❤❤
I agree. I felt the same way when he said that, after he met Peter, he knew he was going to be his "forever dad" - even though Peter himself wasn't sure at that point. I think you're right - Anthony has an old soul that just knows how things are supposed to be.
It's lovely to witness, isn't it? I have high hopes for his future - I think he has the potential to go far and do incredible things 💖
A heart-touching miracle story! It can be done! Anthony and his father Peter are PIONEERS!
CONGRATULATIONS
Anthony👏🎉👍🧑🎓🍹
Your SMILE says it ALL... You're a Smart and Wonderful Guy❣️
I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU ALL!
Anthony - You have surpassed sooo many statistical odds in your very short life. Keep breaking the mold, surpassing statistical expectatations, and being a part of making new statistics.
Anthony is SUPER cool and deserves the BEST!!!!! 🎓🧑🎓2024
Yeah, really likeable and level-headed!
Oh my gosh, congratulations class of 2024 - what a BLESSING DAY for Anthony.
PeaceAndLove
Lori
Anthony has been given the gift of a great father. You gave him a future. But statistically the odds of his success were not good, God stepped in and sent him to your home. He is also setting an example for his younger siblings. I absolutely love hearing them call you Daddy.
Congratulations, Anthony we are so proud of you, your Internet aunties 🙌🙌👏👏🩷🩷
Congratulations,Anthony! Congratulations, Peter! High school graduation is an important milestone in your son's life! So glad you two decided to become a family! Anthony is a wonderful son with a wonderful dad! College is next and Anthony will still need his dad's encouragement and support.
Congratulations Anthony be proud of your self your Dad is very proud of you you are going to achieve a lot God bless you and your family so proud 👏 ❤🎉😊love from Pennsylvania
Congratulations. 🎉 So happy for Anthony. My autistic daughter is a 2024 graduate. I know how you feel. She's my first born. So this year has been bitter sweet. ❤
I know the feeling!!
Congratulations Anthony! God has chosen you & knew you’d pass life’s test. Keep going you’re AMAZING!😃💖
Congratulations Anthony and Peter you did well. Proud moment.🎉
Congrats to Anthony and dad. Just waiit until his college graduation 🎓. My sister was the louder than my mom at my highschool graduation, she even cheered for my friend.
Congratulations Anthony!!! I am so proud of you!!😊❤❤❤🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Wow, 3-5 percent of foster kids graduate high school. That is such a super sad statistic! Way to go you Anthony !
Wow, I knew there were very high school dropout rates but I had no idea it was as bad as that. I'm hoping it's not as extreme where I live.
I don't think it's accurate. There's so little tracking for many kids who age out (I aged out at 18 but didn't graduate high school until 19 and had no follow-up at all), and so many of these studies focus on the stats they want so they can get more funding. What's sad is that foster youth in the system hear these stats and believe life is hopeless for them. That's the reason I would like to see these types of stats corrected but it doesn't help funding if positive outcomes are shown.
Congrats Anthony ! What a wonderful accomplishment!
Congratulations Son and Dad you are what life is about. Dad’s previous life actually was the foundation for the success that you are achieving and Dad has a beautiful soul!!
🎊 Congratulations young man❤
Congratulations, Anthony we are so proud of you, your Internet aunties 🙌🙌👏👏🩷🩷👨🏼🎓🏆🏆
Yayyyyy!!! Keep learning!!!!!!
Peter,you are a good father. That's why youre son graduated.
Congrats to Anthony. He really is doing well .Most my adopted friends didn’t make it.
Way to go, Anthony! Moving on to bigger and better things! Congratulations! 🎉 👏🏽
Oh my gosh! Happy tears and lots of smiles. You are the very, very best! And your kids all know it. Blessed and blessings!!!
CONGRATULATIONS Anthony!!! Someone pass me the tissues I am tearing up. As someone who has watched your channel from the beginning I feel so much pride and love for all of you. Anthony is such a great kid with an amazing future ahead of him. What an awesome moment for your beautiful family!!!! I just watched my grandson do the same thing two weeks ago.
Anthony, Congratulations!
Peter, I cried watching this. Memories flooding me. I have 2 sons. Both graduates. My youngest was diagnosed with terminal cancer at 14 yrs old. His life changed. He was not supposed to graduate or live. He beat the odds. Graduated on time, with his class, still on Chemo. We watched a strong young man over come alot. My sons are 34 & 36 yrs old now!!! Proud momma!
I pray that you eventually, no rush, find the right precious lady that will help you in your ministry to the kids. That she will have the same heart for helping the children. You deserve to have a wonderful lady right beside you❤
Congratulations Anthony on your HS graduation!!! 🎉🎈🎉🎈
Congratulations Anthony, on your graduation from High School. A stepping stone to more success. I wish you all the best.
Congratulations Anthony !
Thanks to God and your Dad.
Congratulations Anthony so proud of you 😊 and Peter you are an amazing father 🙂❤
Luke is adorable!
We are all so proud of you Anthony. Congratulations 👏🏾 🎊 🎉
Congratulations Anthony 🎈👍🎈It’s obvious that you are a very talented and smart young man. Hey Peter, you are one spectacular dad. Your son has a bright future ahead of him. Luv you all! ❤🎈🎈
Congrats, Anthony!!! So proud of you. 🥳👏🏾🎊🎉I can’t wait to see what else life has in store for you. -You internet auntie.
So Proud of you another young Anthony ! My second oldest son Anthony graduated his 2 younger brothers didn’t. Life is never fair even in a 2 parent home. Your such a wonderful young man, I’m just as Proud of you as my own. I’ve also been reminded I need to show up for my old foster kids, whom I still love. WTG young man.
Arizona changed the laws on state support for foster kids until finishing high school so we've helped the graduation rate here a bit. But, if you're a foster in a group home, the state support goes away when you turn 18. We need to change that, but it's a budget thing. I could think of a few ways the state could save money but cutting out some
programs that don't seem as necessary in my eyes.
Congrats to Anthony-- but also to Peter for giving him such a loving (and fun!) home and family!! Y'all are all so inspiring.❤
Let’s go Congratulations Anthony thank you raising him so well, not just as an adopted son but as your son is blessed to have you, I am so proud of him. ANTHONY be the best version of yourself every opportunity that God has given you use it for his glory this is coming from someone that was also in the system in foster care rooting for you always and thank you Mr. Peter for taking him as your own
Not sure what you say in Uganda but in Kenya they say “ Hongera”🎉🎉🎉 Anthony. You re in the same great class of 2024 as my son!
"Kulika" in L
uganda
Congrats Anthony.
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤Much love from Uganda 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬congratulations
This family is the best family!! Just love all of you so much!
Congratulations Anthony. I wish you a wonderful future and may all your dreams come true. You sure have made your family proud. 🎉
🎉Anthony Peter God bless love Y'all from St.vincent Caribbean 🇻🇨💯👏👏💙😇
Congratulations 🎉
Congratulations Anthony great job you have achieved your first of many milestones. I wish you many more beautiful moments coming your way❤🙏✌️🤗
Wishing you continued success !
Anthony we are incredibly proud of you! An absolute proud intrinsic valued and the absolute precious sanctity representing of life! Thank you Anthony you’re absolutely amazing and a truly treasure for us all! Blessed Be Always🎉✨🙏🌟❤️🌟🙌✨ Anthony!
Omg congrats to all of you! Graduation is such a big achievement!!
I'm sorry but I laughed when you were in target, felt so related going shopping alone to avoid anxiety 😂 I have a toddler too and they get... Really energy explosive 😂
Love this family!❤ Hope they get really far in life❤
Congratulation Anthony
Congratulations 🎊 👏
Graduation, prom , baby showers and weddings are the celebrations that give you goosebumps. I’m so proud of Anthony. God has allowed you to adopt kids and pour love and belief into them. Anthony is truly your son.
Congracs . Your dad got mucho corazon❤
You have to be very very proud of you Anthony 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I had five kids and usually had my niece and nephew along. The baby rode in the cart child seat and the toddler was in the basket. Each of the others had assigned places to hold on the cart. It was rarely an issue. They were taught how to behave, and I duly praised and sometimes rewarded for good behavior. If my kids or their cousins fought in the car, I pulled over and took out my current huge book, such as, War and Peace or Les Miserables. I never yelled or warned, but it only took a few times reading by the side of the road for 10 minutes for them to figure it out. After that, if I pulled over, they would correct each other. "Oh, no! Stop fighting. Be quiet." Then they would giggle and beg me, "Please, start driving again." You can't let the inmates run the asylum.
Oh, woman of wisdom! Some genius suggestions. Imagine being forced to listen to excerpts from either of those. books -at the roadside - as a youngster in the company of other youngsters The agony of it! You have taught them well how to be calm, how to step back from the uproar in their own mind and reflect calmy. Love andrespect.
Congratulations 🎉😊
Congratulations Anthony! Go out onto the world and make a difference - like your lovely dad. Love from London x
Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉
Well now Anthony gets a dose of the real world LOL. One of my younger cousins just graduated on the 1st of June, sadly due to a bunch of conflicting information I didn't get to go to his graduation :(. He has struggled for pretty much his whole life, practically raised by my aunt and uncle rather than his parents as they can't seem to grow up....he managed to make it through school, and graduate with a scholarship to a school 1/2 way across the country :(. But, sometimes that's what it takes to make a young man/s dreams a reality....they gotta leave home to make their dreams....he will be playing college football, and studying to be a dentist....but he specified he only wants to be a pediatric dentist.....he loves kids, loves helping kids, he's brought home so many classmates over the years and helped them, not just with school but when they've got problems at home, he's there, he knows how it is to not be wanted, not be loved, so he's the opposite of how his parents treated him. I love him to death....I got 1 more cousin that graduates next year....course what I guess they'd be cousins once removed or something of that nature.....regardless I love them just the same....given their struggles over the years, if the youngest graduates next year, it'll be awesome. The one that just graduated, got to go to Mexico for their senior trip....must be nice LOL, all we got when I graduated was well nothing, graduation was over, that was it. So...now that he's back home he says "Ugg, I gotta get back to that real world and adulting now" HAHA>>>>>yeah you do buddy, get used to it LOL.
Hey I've done similar with the binder clips to hold up my pants, broke the buckle on my belt at work one day, used a couple binder clips to hold the belt together the rest of my 8 hour shift....do what works. I don't have kids, but I mentor some occasionally, its amazing what you can get creative with sometimes LOL. So much fun having them around though, I usually get the kids who nobody wants to work with because they're difficult....2 of which are well soon to be 9 years old, both autistic....you know, for being autistic they're pretty dang smart, and all they want to do is help, when they're with me they want to help me rather than work on their school work LOL. So its a trade off, I get them to work on their school work for about 1/2 the time they're with me, the other half they get to help with whatever project I'm working on at home.....what they don't realize is they're not just helping they're learning things that they will use later on in life, measuring, leveling, you name it they get to help with it and they love it, gets them outside, gets them thinking, and although sometimes their lower levels of speech get in their way, they don't let it stop them, and they love it....they love the one on one time and what's interesting is the typical autistic characteristics kind of go away when they are hands on into helping with something, its like a whole different child sometimes.
Peter you are doing awesome with those kids.
🎉congratulations 🎉!!! Its Awesome to see him graduate.
Congratulations!! I am so happy💐🎊💐
Congratulations to Anthony and Mutabazi family. Love and prayers from Uganda.
Nice achievement. Congratulations with Anthony’s graduation!
Congratulations
🎉 Congratulations ❤
Congratulations to you and Anthony! You guys are so inspiring. God bless.
Anthony isn't in foster care. You adopted him, remember? **He's your son!** He is not your foster son but your son. Those statistics don't apply to him.
If you weren't ready to be his dad, why did you adopt him? I get really hurt and frustrated every time you talk like that about him/your adopted children. Your causing them more harm than good when you do that.
Peter - Youve guided 2 through high school graduation. Youve got a few more youngers in the house and on the way. Not to discount what the kids have done, you are helping to change the numbers and the success of "your" kids be they fully adopted or not.
Congrats, Anthony! I do not believe the stats being commonly promoted graduation rates are accurate. I aged out of the foster care system and did graduate high school at 19 (thanks to having to switch high schools 4 times including to a very rural school so it took me longer). I enlisted in the military and graduated college at 28. No one has followed up with me. Instead, the stats focus on former foster youth who continue to need services, especially those who enter the foster care system as older teens who have issues with the criminal justice system. I was part of a group of former foster youth who wanted to get a more comprehensive study done and there's just not the desire to show good outcomes because it doesn't help get funding. And so many groups promoting adoption don't want people to think there are former foster youth like me who are successful. Had I been adopted by my crazy religious foster parents, I never would be where I am today.
I got to watch his graduation on UA-cam as they do live streams for all of the graduations in the Charlotte Mecklenburg school district and I’m so happy and proud of Anthony that he could make it this far and for also being one of the first alumni from his school ❤ for those of u wondering, the school he graduated from opened in 2022 and didn’t get their first graduating class until this year ❤ And ofc congrats to Peter and the family
Read Ephesians the first 3 chapters reveals your true real unchanging identity memorize speak often in day ...and promises...please share this ❤
Congratulations Anthony! I can’t tell you how much your family has helped me as a foster grandparent. Thank you!
lol the toddler aisle got me😂
Now I finally know the name of the young man who is in some of the videos- jacob.
Congratulations, Anthony. You beat the odds, but you are very special in that you're funny and you're very smart. You're going to do great things. Remember doing great things doesn't mean to be world famous necessarily, It means to live a good life, live clean, give to others and love fiercely, and live for God - those are great things.
Love from Canada❤
🥹🥹 Me Thinking About Next year ! 😭 My Daughter & Nephew Is Graduating next year & They will Be 1st Gen in our Family Mom & dad side! Such GRATEFUL & PROUD MOMENT for me! Also yes Senior Prom/Graduation is Next to Getting married Type of moment.
Congratulations Anthony!!! You have persevered and all your hard work paid off. Carry that with you as you move forth with your life, and continue to succeed!
Congratulations Anthony!!!! I live in Europe and it is so nice to learn about American culture through your videos. Who knew graduation cloths had different colors from black 😅. Also nice to see all the family and friends in the videos now and then. And I start getting curious about Jacob too.... who is he and when did he become friends with Anthony?
Great Dads produce Great Sons. Congrats to you both!!
Well said! ❤
Anthony you did it. 🎉🎉
I love it, "Can you go put on underwear, please.?"
So awesome!! Way to go, Anthony!! 🎉❤
Congratulations Anthony. GOD bless you and your family ❤️
Congratulations Anthony! I feel your dad's overwhelming pride. You are a loving son and brother, respectul, bright and determined. I wish you success in all your endeavors.
Congratulations Anthony from kenya i hope one day you can all visit africa and my country kenya it neighbours Uganda
Congratulations Antony! May the Lord Bless you more and more and prosper you! Awesome Dad! Hats off to you! 🍨🎂🌠
😂😂😂😂😂 always looking forward to see LUKE 😂😂😂😂Boy keeps me laughing. Congrats Anthony 🎉🎉 GOD bless you Peter
Congratulations Anthony ❤
Congratulations Anthony. 🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏
Congratulations Anthony