Saturday, Sumner Zody graduated from Harmony Academy, a Lake Oswego charter school with a curriculum designed for children recovering from drugs and alcohol. One of 10 in the class of 2022, Zody had been a student almost since the day school opened in 2019. It remains the only recovery school in Oregon.Fedor Zarkhin/The Oregonian
Sumner Zody’s journey from suicidal, isolated and drug-dependent adolescent to reserved but open-hearted high school graduate started with what he calls a “trick.”
When Zody was 16, his sister picked him up and drove him to Harmony Academy, a high school for kids recovering from drugs and alcohol, for an interview he did not know he was going to have at a school he did not want to attend.
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