{"id":1136,"date":"2007-11-25T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T20:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2007-11-25T16:07:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T20:07:43","slug":"jaimita-haskell-five-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"Jaimita Haskell, five years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half a decade ago, Jaimita (&#8220;Jay&#8221;) Haskell was upset about being tracked into the general curriculum at her Staten Island high school. She crafted a <a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.prx.org\/genprx\/audio\/youthcast_2007_04_04.mp3\">radio piece criticizing tracking<\/a>, and in part because of her speaking up for herself, she was finally admitted into the honors classes she wanted. As she said towards the end of the piece, &#8220;This story is for those who don&#8217;t have a mic or a big mouth&#8230; so scream, bring out your parents, be noticeable.&#8221; Today, she&#8217;s a student in Queens College, and you can read a <a href=\"http:\/\/youthcast.livejournal.com\/30805.html#cutid1\">follow-up interview<\/a> from earlier this month on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/rss\/podcast\/podcast_detail.php?siteId=4985910\">YouthCast<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half a decade ago, Jaimita (&#8220;Jay&#8221;) Haskell was upset about being tracked into the general curriculum at her Staten Island high school. She crafted a radio piece criticizing tracking, and in part because of her speaking up for herself, she was finally admitted into the honors classes she wanted. As she said towards the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-ik","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}