Frank Pratt:  

Technically not a Shadle Park grad but I still claim it as my High School. All my friends attended or graduated (a lot of us didn't) from Shadle. I left at the end of my Sophmore year, wouldn't have graduated anyway (I think I had like 2 credits and those were in woodshop), and realized there was no chance of completing (plus Mr Adams hated me, not good) so I quit along with a few of my friends, Randy F., Gary D, Scott B., Dusty, Baca, Pedro...the list goes on. I didn't run with the jocks, or the nerds (I think we called them tubes) and we weren't the best citizens Spokane had to offer but I wouldn't change it...I learned alot in that time that has and continures to served me well in child rearing, advice, guidance, accountability, ownership, knowing what not to do, and realizing when it is time to move on. I did go back to school however, in what would have been my 1st quarter Senior year (at Contin...remember Contin?) and ironically enough graduated on time on my 18th birthday in the Shadle Park auditorium. Soon after graduation, the following Monday ac...Expand for more