When social worker Eileen Frazier of the Wareham Jr./Sr. Cooperative School told Bridgewater State University representatives that she wanted her students to be able to tour the campus, the college went above and beyond.

Frazier would only have been able to bring three students, tops, in the school's van. So Bridgewater State, whose president is Wareham native Dr. Dana Mohler-Faria, sent its own transportation.

As a result, nine of the school's 7th-, 8th-, and 9th-graders were able to take a tour of the Bridgewater State campus.

Frazier says the experience could shape the students' futures.

"When you get a kid interested in college during high school, it's too late," she explained. "You have to plant the seed and let it fertilize."

Middle- and early high-school students who have fallen behind in classes are given a second chance in the Cooperative School day program, which is designed to determine the reasons students are struggling, and help them catch up and complete their work before they're retained a grade.