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I'm sitting in a conference room at a middle school in West Philadelphia, and around the table with me are three black boys.

My name's Keegan Marion. I'm in sixth grade, and I'm 12.

My name, Jaden Casey. I'm in eighth grade, and I'm 14.

My name is Isaiah Scott. I'm an eighth grade and now I'm 14.

We talk about what they love about school, what they don't love, who their favorite teachers are, and how they see school as a major part of fulfilling their life dreams.

Isaiah, Jaden, and Kegan are thoughtful, sensitive, and so captivating I forget to point the mic at myself.

Lots of people have certain things they just assume about black young men.

What do you think some of those things are that are just assumed about who you are as a young black man?

Some of them things are like they think, like like gyps cause your skin color think, like you, um,

could don't violence, certain violence,

because they see other black children on the news,

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