![]() She remembers a lot of children who came from difficult family situations and a lot of teachers who didn’t know how to manage and support them. ‘He Doesn’t Belong Here’ At May, Dalton-Patterson helped out in classrooms and on the playground. Her decision gave Quincy the opportunity to go on public transit adventures across the city with his mom, get his thousands of curious questions answered one-on-one and spend lots of time taking things apart and learning to put them back together-the roots of his interest in engineering. After Quincy, her youngest was born, she decided to stay home and focus on him while keeping tabs on two of his older siblings at Gage Park High School. “I just made sure I was at the school every day.” That sacrifice was nothing compared to the work Dalton-Patterson had already put in to support her children. So, she stepped up at once to shield her baby from trouble. I knew the problems,” said Dalton-Patterson. The Sacrifice They landed in May’s attendance area, despite Mom’s misgivings. His mom, Kimberly Dalton-Patterson, says the family had to scramble for housing after the building where they had been renting was suddenly sold. To the surprise of his family, Quincy spent his first three years of school at May Elementary in Austin, which was closed in 2013 for poor academic performance. How did he make it through so successfully? I’d chalk it up to two factors: a fiercely dedicated mother and school options that didn’t exist for two of his older siblings. And he earned all this despite some elementary school experiences that could have thrown off even the brightest kid. This is all possible because Quincy’s high school academic record is just as stellar as his athletics: a 27 on the ACT, a slew of AP courses and a weighted GPA now hovering around a 4.4. But you probably don’t know he’ll be the first Virginia Tech quarterback in history to major in their highly-regarded engineering department. If you follow Chicago’s high school football scene, you probably already know Quincy Patterson, the Solorio High School quarterback who drew lots of attention from college recruiters before committing to Virginia Tech last spring.
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