At the heart of this maelstrom — in which the thorny issues of race and justice have surfaced as themes — is a boy who dreamed of becoming a pilot and liked to work with his hands.
After taking an airplane ride two years ago, Trayvon decided he wanted to learn to fly, his uncle Ronald Fulton said. The teen attended a Miami aviation school part time and was studying to be an engineer, a path to realizing his ambition, Fulton said.
Math was Trayvon’s favorite subject.
He liked to tinker, and he was good with his hands. He once took apart and repaired a broken scooter, Fulton said, and he liked to construct model cars and airplanes and draw pictures of things he wanted to build.
“He was extremely creative,” said Michelle Kypriss, Trayvon’s English teacher at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in Miami. “He just loved building things. He really was intrigued by how things worked.”
She described Trayvon, a junior, as an A and B student who majored in cheerfulness.
His uncle said Trayvon was still a typical kid who loved sports, music and was just feeling the first flush of youth. “He was trying to start driving. He was just finding out about girls.”
Trayvon was close to his 21-year-old brother Jahvaris, also of Miami, and assisted his uncle, a quadriplegic, on outings to University of Miami basketball games.
“He used to help me,” Fulton said, voice breaking.
Trayvon — who was known as “Tray” or “Slimm” — played youth football during his early teens and helped his father coach Little League baseball, said Fulton, whose sister, Sybrina Fulton, is Trayvon’s mother.
Balderdash! I read 152 pages of his tweets which are at Daily Caller. No way this kid would ever have qualified as a pilot...frankly, he was borderline retarded as are most of his friends. Here is a typical comment made by our friend Trayvon, AKA No Limit Nigga: aight finne go GN. betta hit me back 2moro or ail b finne 2 beat yo azz down.
According to his tweets, he was dealing pot to his friends in the hood; he was late for class or absent constantly, and bragged about it; and he was transferring to a 3rd high school that year, having been suspended several times. There is absolutely no way he was an A or B student as was supposedly claimed in this article....pry by a teacher who just wants to keep his or her job....and he was “just discovering girls” his uncle sobbed? What a crock of sh*t. That train done left the station a long time ago, lol.
I suggest that you don’t just believe whatever the media is putting out there and instead do your own research before you look even more foolish spouting half-truths on a website. Unless of course the reason you’re here is to muddy the water....
Mrs. Prince of Space