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🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Finding creative ways to celebrate the class of 2020. Also, how a dedicated mentor changed one man's path.
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0:00.0 | Produced by the I-Lab at W-B-U-R, Boston. |
0:07.0 | Welcome to Kind World. I'm Andrea Aswahay. And I'm Yasmin Ammer. |
0:15.0 | Andrea, you and I both live so close to a bunch of universities here in Greater Boston. |
0:20.0 | And it's right around this time that the streets should be filled with students |
0:24.4 | taking pictures and their caps and gowns with their happy families. But of course that is |
0:30.1 | not happening. I really feel for the class of 2020 you and I are celebrating |
0:36.3 | 10 years since we graduated from college. Yes ma'am and we can both remember just |
0:42.1 | how exciting that moment was. |
0:44.8 | It was so emotional. |
0:46.6 | And we're clearly not the only ones thinking |
0:49.5 | about how to celebrate the class of 2020. |
0:53.0 | Educators everywhere are struggling to figure out that exact thing |
0:58.0 | in the time of a pandemic. |
1:00.0 | We're going to have something for them. |
1:01.0 | It's just not going to be traditional. It can't be. |
1:03.0 | That's Vanessa Clark. She's a superintendent of the Lacey Township School |
1:08.1 | District in New Jersey. She kept thinking about what to do. |
1:12.6 | The high school had already printed, |
1:15.0 | Congrats Class of 2020 lawn signs for each senior. |
1:19.0 | But then she thought, why not kick it up a notch? |
1:22.0 | But for that, she needed help from the township's police chief? |
1:27.6 | So the next day I called them and I said, Chief, you know, what would you think if I asked you if you could escort us to visit the home of every single senior in Lacey Township? |
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