{"id":5427,"date":"2013-03-31T19:29:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T00:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=5427"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:49:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:49:15","slug":"a-poor-kid-deserves-opportunity-too-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=5427","title":{"rendered":"A Poor Kid Deserves Opportunity Too (Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reflections from Newark Community High School, March 31st 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n            \n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image \" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\n\t\t\t    \t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/laesch-posts\/nchs-sign-out-front.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"\"\n             data-src=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/laesch-posts\/nchs-sign-out-front.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/laesch-posts\/thumbs\/thumbs_nchs-sign-out-front.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"576\"\n             data-title=\"nchs-sign-out-front\"\n             data-description=\"\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"23f46fdeec08f8bb7404296d2700ffdd\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/laesch-posts\/dynamic\/nchs-sign-out-front.jpg-nggid03576-ngg0dyn-320x240x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"nchs-sign-out-front\"\n             title=\"nchs-sign-out-front\"\n              width=\"320\"               \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        \n<p>Driving by I stopped to stare and remember&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The squeak of gym shoes on polished hardwood floors<br \/>\nRolled jeans and clanking metal locker doors<\/p>\n<p>My older brother and friends thinking they were cool<br \/>\nSneaking a smoke behind the brick school<\/p>\n<p>The first Apple IIe with green letters blinking<br \/>\nLearning code, tabbing, no clicking<\/p>\n<p>My first psych paper questioned corporate advertising in school<br \/>\nSociology, I learned I was part of a class &#8211; bottom of the economic pool<\/p>\n<p>A solitary study hall in the librarians&#8217; backroom, studying or sleeping<br \/>\nThe Librarian knew no 17-year old should be full-time working<\/p>\n<p>I know she was proud when I got my ACT scores and acceptance letter<br \/>\nTeachers dug deep, earning their scholarship &#8211; a shot at something better&#8230;<\/p>\n            \n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image \" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\n\t\t\t    \t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/laesch-posts\/nchs_wb.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"\"\n             data-src=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/laesch-posts\/nchs_wb.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/laesch-posts\/thumbs\/thumbs_nchs_wb.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"577\"\n             data-title=\"nchs_wb\"\n             data-description=\"\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"b6b7888ae3f45abbd53b8437528285e1\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/laesch-posts\/dynamic\/nchs_wb.jpg-nggid03577-ngg0dyn-320x240x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"nchs_wb\"\n             title=\"nchs_wb\"\n              width=\"320\"               \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        \n<p>Now I know why I spend so much time fighting for this beautiful relic<br \/>\nOpportunities, our schools &#8211; keep them strong, keep them public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections from Newark Community High School, March 31st 2013 Driving by I stopped to stare and remember&#8230; The squeak of gym shoes on polished hardwood floors Rolled jeans and clanking metal locker doors My older brother and friends thinking they were cool Sneaking a smoke behind the brick school The first Apple IIe with green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[2028],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5427"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7046,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions\/7046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}