From The Tribune staff reports
TRUSSVILLE – Hewitt-Trussville High School rising senior Kaylee Rose Elrod advanced all the way to Round 4 (the “Finalists” round) in the 10th annual New York Times Student Editorial Contest, Trussville City Schools announced.
Kaylee Rose Elrod (Photo courtesy of Trussville City Schools)
More than 12,000 students from around the world entered submissions, but only 151 essays out of 12,592 made it to the finalists round.
Kaylee Rose’s submission, an editorial titled, “True Crime: How the Genre Lost its Integrity,” was written as part of an assignment for her AP Language and Composition class last spring and focused on the morality and ethics of the true crime entertainment fad.
The finalists field was eventually narrowed to 11 winners, who were announced on June 22.
“I’m so proud of Kaylee Rose,” said her AP English teacher Jen Coleman. “I’m no math teacher, but by my calculations, Kaylee Rose’s essay was in the top 1.2% of all the submissions. That’s an amazing accomplishment!”
