GLOW — Growing, Learning, Overcoming and Winning — as the acronym guiding the development of students at Holland High in Falmouth, Trelawny, is a graphic tale of the gallant strides of student athlete Shanoya Douglas and the academic performance of the school.

In the animated audience in the stands at the National Stadium, or glued to your television sets watching all that was gripping during this year’s Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships (Champs), you would have been struck by the repeated remarks of event reporters that Shanoya had steadfastly kept asserting that she was not interested in attending any other school but Holland High. Your interest would also have been heightened because it was a shared comment and sentiment of  schoolmate and running mate Johan Reynaldo Smythe.

Students from Muschett High in Wakefield, Trelawny, they were pursuing sixth-form studies down the proverbial road at Holland High in Falmouth, the capital of the parish — turning a deaf ear, as it were, to luring recruiters from ‘established’ traditional schools throughout the country.