From the ACLU, this is at Liberty.

I'm Vanessa Handy, a producer for the show and your host for this episode.

And I want to start this episode in verse.

A school bus is a microphone, a beep machine, a recording booth.

A school bus is a horn section, a rhythm section, an orchestra pit, a balcony to shoot paperball

three-pointers from.

School bus is a basketball court, a football stadium, a soccer field, sometimes a boxing

ring.

A school bus is a movie set, actors, directors, producers, scripts, scenes, settings, motivations,

action, cut. Your fake tears look real. These are real tears, but I thought we were making a comedy.

A school bus is a misunderstanding. The school bus is a masterpiece that everyone pretends to

understand. A school bus is the mountain range behind Mona Lisa,

the sphinxes knows, an unknown wonder of the world,

an unknown wonder to Canton Post,

who heard bus riders talk about their journeys to and from school,

but to Canton, a school bus is also a cannonball,

a thing that almost destroyed him, almost made him

motherless.

That's writer Jason Reynolds, reading from his book, Look Both Ways, a tale told in 10

blocks.

You'll find moments like this in many of his books, capturing the world of a kid, making

their realities come alive on the page through poetics, all before revealing a hard

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