Editorial: The city s kids are in crisis
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Last week four Jacksonville teenagers were charged with murder, and the city’s largest high school had a racially charged walkout that resulted in enhanced security measures at all the high schools.
That was just one week. The rest of the year hasn’t been much better for Jacksonville’s kids.
Their lives have already been turned upside down by the coronavirus, which has disrupted their educations and their social networks as well as threatens their health. For some, whose parents have lost work, it has threatened the stability of their personal lives.
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 by Danielle Prieur (WMFE)
Photo: Jess Bailey
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NEW YORK (AP) Inaugural poems aren’t only for grownups. A high school senior from Jacksonville, Florida, named Hallie Knight has some well formed ideas about where the country is and how she’d like to see it change. The 17-year-old has won a contest organized by the Academy of American Poets. Students under 18 wrote their own inaugural poems in anticipation of Wednesday’s swearing in of President-elect Joe Biden. The guidelines said applicants for the Inaugural Poem Project should submit work that reflects on the country’s challenges, strengths and hopes. Knight’s poem is called “To Rebuild.” It likens the U.S. to a house that has been severely but not hopelessly damaged.
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This combination of images released by Academy of American Poets shows, from left, Hallie Knight, 17, a high school senior from Jacksonville, Fla., Mina King, a 17-year-old from Shreveport, La., and 12-year-old Gabrielle Marshall, from Richmond, Va.. who came in first, second and third respectively in a poetry contest organized by the Academy of American Poets for which students wrote their own inaugural poems. Knight s poem is called âTo Rebuild.â and King s poem is âIn Pursuit of Dawn, and Marshall s poem is The Power of Hope. The official inaugural poem will be read during Wednesday s ceremony by Amanda Gorman, the countryâs first Youth Poet Laureate. (Photos by Hallie Knight, from left, Robin Hines and Jan Marshall/Academy of American Poets via AP)