Surviving to graduation, Part 2
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In Part 2 of our series on how schools address gun violence, reporter Moriah Balingit dives into the life and death of Huguenot student Jaden Carter and how school officials in Richmond try to save students like him.
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It took months to find out more about what happened the night Jaden Carter was fatally shot behind Huguenot High School’s baseball fields. In that time, The Post learned how and why school officials, from his teacher to a Huguenot police officer, tried to intervene and set Jaden on a better path.
It’s part of a district-wide program in Richmond Public Schools: an ambitious bid to build a safer community. But sometimes students stray into danger anyway. Today on “Post Reports,” education reporter Moriah Balingit explores what’s working – and what’s not.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Alahay. |
| 0:04.0 | As you may have heard yesterday, reporters at the post have embedded inside of one school |
| 0:09.5 | grappling with community violence. |
| 0:11.4 | And these reporters witness things few journalists |
| 0:14.7 | have ever seen firsthand. We're bringing you this reporting on our show this week |
| 0:19.2 | as part of a series called Surviving to Graduation. |
| 0:23.6 | If you haven't heard the first episode, |
| 0:25.3 | please go back and listen to Wednesday's show. |
| 0:27.6 | You won't want to miss it. |
| 0:29.5 | Today's show is the second episode in the series. And just a warning, this episode contains descriptions of violence. |
| 0:36.0 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:40.0 | On our first trip to Richmond, Virginia, |
| 0:42.0 | we visited Martin Luther King Junior Middle School. |
| 0:45.3 | It's in the east end, an area home to a lot of the city's public housing projects. |
| 0:50.8 | All right, good morning, little brothers. |
| 0:54.0 | We're going to kind of close out. |
| 0:57.6 | The last couple of months we've been talking about what, the community violence. |
| 1:01.8 | We met with social worker Olafemi Shabzu. |
| 1:05.0 | He and a student support specialist lead a group called The Young Kings in Action. |
| 1:09.9 | It's a mentorship program for boys. About 10 of them were sitting in a circle on the floor. |
| 1:15.5 | They introduced themselves, giving their name and the neighborhood they live in. |
| 1:18.8 | My name is Aisa and I'm in eighth grade and I live in Church Hill. My name is Jil. I'm in live in Church Hill. |
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