School didn’t feel like school for Savion Wright, a recent graduate of Buchtel Community Learning Center.
It felt like another home.
The support. The encouragement. The love.
So much so that Wright doesn’t plan to leave for long. One of his prized possessions right now is a letter from Superintendent Mary Outley — also a product of 1040 Copley Road — promising him a teaching job in Akron Public Schools after college.
Up next: Kent State University, where tuition is covered by scholarships for Wright, Buchtel CLC’s president of the Class of 2025 and the school’s most recent National Honor Society president.
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Staying close to home, with plans to return home, fit into his plan to pour into the community that poured so much into him. His turn to give more, do more in Akron classrooms is four years away.
His ultimate ambition? To become a school principal, where his love and care can influence an entire building — students and teachers.
At Buchtel CLC, Wright balanced a bevy of activities — none of them involving bouncing balls. His mother, Dildred, jokes that no one will mistake him for an athlete. She remembers when he was young. He’d run on a basketball court, no dribbles. Still, he left high school years later as one of its most recognizable students. Air Force JROTC. Bowling Club. He was a student PTA member. Wright was also one of 44 students in Akron schools to be honored during the first annual Scholar of the Year Awards Ceremony. “As we celebrate these exceptional young people,” Outley said at the time, “let us recognize that they represent our future.”
For two summers, he also worked at Emmanuel Christian Academy as an assistant teacher.
“I feel like the kids draw to me because I’m younger,” Wright said, “and they definitely loved me and they definitely want me back.”
He hopes to one day nurture an environment where teachers who love their students are rewarded with love and respect from their pupils.
