The flava:He was unshowered and unshaven, in the same secondhand clothing the whole weekend. By Sunday morning, the humiliations had undone him. When a family heading to church crossed the street to avoid him, he hollered out, “I’m a fucking college president, you can look at me!”
The family hustled away. But Lowery-Hart is, in fact, a college president. And he was on the streets to find a better way to lead a school where poverty intrudes into the classroom every day.
The article:
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/05/college-poor-students/560972/
"Last fall it debuted a low-cost day-care center that keeps its doors open 14 hours a day to serve student parents with jobs in the early morning or evening; students who qualify for a state subsidy only pay $5 a week. Tutoring is available evenings and weekends." Well, color me envious. These two things would make so much difference for our students. But we've been fighting for on-site childcare for decades, with nothing to show for it. And our tutoring center thinks their current offerings (random, irregular hours and subjects) is just fine.
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