Keeping Score: Part 1

Notes from America with Kai Wright

WNYC Studios

News Commentary, Politics, History, News

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🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The John Jay Educational Campus, a large brick building in Park Slope, Brooklyn, houses four high schools: Cyberarts Studio Academy, the Secondary School for Law, Millennium Brooklyn, and Park Slope Collegiate. Each school is its own separate universe, but the students yearn to connect. When the administration announces that the athletics programs will merge, they ask what it will take for the building to live up to its new motto: “We Are One.”

“Keeping Score” is a co-production of WNYC Studios and The Bell. This four-part series will appear in the United States of Anxiety feed on Thursdays in June.

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For WNYC: Alana Casanova-Burgess, Jessica Gould, Joe Plourde, Jenny Lawton, Karen Frillmann, Emily Botein, Wayne Schulmeister, and Andrew Dunn.

For The Bell: Mariah Morgan, Lauren Valme, Renika Jack, Noor Muhsin, Thyan Nelson, Jacob Mestizo, Taylor McGraw, and Mira Gordon.

Fact-check by Natalie Meade. Music by Jared Paul – with additional tracks by Hannis Brown, Isaac Jones, and "Con Anima" by Dee Yan-Key. Special thanks to Afi Yellow-Duke, Rebecca Clark-Callender and Tracie Hunte.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. It's Kai. Over the next four weeks, we have something special coming
0:05.0	your way in this feed. It's a four-part series about a high school building in Brooklyn
0:09.7	and a girls volleyball team that's competing for the city championship. The voices in
0:14.6	this story are so compelling. These students, they're grappling with what it means to go
0:18.6	to school in, by some measures, what is the most segregated school system in this country.
0:25.0	This special series will drop on Thursdays each week for the next four weeks, so listen
0:29.2	to the episodes in order. And of course, they're still going to hear their regular show
0:33.2	on Mondays as well. So check it out. I hope you enjoy. Thanks for listening.
0:40.4	So like we think he's about to announce like who is going to get on or not. And I'm so
0:46.2	nervous like the whole time. Mariah Morgan is trying out for the girls' varsity volleyball
0:50.2	team at her high school, Park Slope Collegiate in Brooklyn. Also, it's very hot in this gym,
0:55.7	like it's all sweating. Everybody's sweating. Oh, and I'm so nervous about this. I mean,
1:02.0	a lot of people seem chill about it. Like some of us are a little anxious. In a gym where
1:06.6	everyone has to wear a mask, Mariah's eyes tell you if she's smiling or frowning or
1:11.8	following the arc of a ball over the net. I mean, I feel like I'll cry either way if
1:16.0	I'm not on or come on. Yeah. Yeah. Overall, I don't regret it being here. She's a junior.
1:21.7	And after a year of COVID and remote learning, she's just so eager to get back on the court.
1:27.3	Okay, so it just ended and they called my name so I'm on the first second gym. It was
1:38.0	very intense because we literally, I really, I really want to play. I just want to be on
1:42.2	the team on the top. I'm going to try to hold on to the excitement
1:46.9	and Mariah's voice. There's not a lot of that anywhere these days, much less in high school,
1:52.2	but what's happening in her school on that team in particular is exciting. It's even historic.
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