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And after two and a half weeks away from campus, it’s where students are scheduled to return to next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to TCE, the school is surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped freeway structure, thousands of shipping trucks and underground storage tanks– a number of them have resulted in documented leaks. That’s because West Oakland was an industrial bastion for the greater part of the 20th century. Numerous factories, plants and warehouses have sullied its soil. (The city’s only known EPA Superfund Site—a cleanup priority for the EPA— is \u003ca href=\"https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0905334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AMCO Chemical\u003c/a> in West Oakland.) \u003ca href=\"http://acphd.org/media/496252/air-pollution-health-impacts-west-oakland-acphd-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It’s home\u003c/a> to Alameda County’s highest levels of asthma and lowest life expectancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And who lives in West Oakland? During the decades of rampant redlining, it was one of the few places in the Bay Area African Americans could freely move into. That’s why McClymonds, historically, is a predominantly African American school. It’s also known for its legendary alums (Bill Russell and Frank Robinson, to name a few) and honored for its football team recently winning the state championship \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/McClymonds-is-a-state-football-champion-for-3rd-13469769.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three times in a row\u003c/a>. It’s a pillar of the community, and even with the changing demographics in the neighborhood due to gentrification, the school’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicschoolreview.com/mcclymonds-high-school-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported population\u003c/a> of 372 students is still 80% African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the coverage of McClymonds’ closure has centered on input from adults: elected officials, parents and school administrators. But what’s it like to be a student, in a literally toxic environment? I wanted to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876186\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876186\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Shoes and Shakur. Some of the items inside of the Restorative Justice Circle. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shoes and Shakur. Some of the items inside of the Restorative Justice Circle. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>nside the staff room at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland, Saba Ghebreyesus (or Ms. Saba as the students call her), director of the youth-led multimedia platform \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/direct/t/340282366841710300949128149233437389874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IceeHouse\u003c/a>, stood at the dry-erase board writing the agreements for a restorative justice circle. A few minutes later, a handful of students from McClymonds trickled in, followed by a teacher, Mr. Taylor (not to be confused with the McClymonds principal, Jeffrey Taylor, who was also present, as well as Oakland Unified School District Administrator Vanessa Sifuentes-Dimaano).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the circle at Bunche, where McClymonds students were temporarily relocated, was to give young folks an opportunity to discuss how they’re processing the news that a potentially harmful chemical was discovered under their school just weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The door closed and the students sat in a circle around a few items: an old sidekick two-way, a brick cellphone, the \u003cem>Tupac Shakur Legacy\u003c/em> book by Jamal Joseph, and the talking piece: a miniature statue of people in a rowboat. After some warm-up questions, Ms. Saba asked, “What was running through your mind and what were you feeling when you first heard a hazardous chemical was found at McClymonds?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I just kinda seen it as no school for us last week,” said a ninth grader named Christopher as he let out a slight laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles, a 10th grader, brought up Ramone Sanders, a McClymonds alumnus who was diagnosed with cancer at 19 years old in 2019. “It was kind of like, wow, that could have really been responsible for his death,” he said. “And they could shut down the whole school because of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Dwayne, a senior at McClymonds stands in the hallway at Ralph J. 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Was that going to affect my graduation?” asked a 12th grader named Neyionna. “The TCE, how long has it really been there?… I’m just saying, Mack just needs to be rebuilt, I think, because where Mack is, is an industrial area: the factories, the gas stations… And it’s all black [people], so yeah, I think that’s kinda racist,” she concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior named Dwayne pointed out that news of contamination affected his and other students’ mental health. “I have something called generalized anxiety disorder. It gets triggered by events like this,” he said. “I’m a hypochondriac as well. So, I was like, ‘I definitely have cancer.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shared that he’s angry and confused, and that his trust in the adults in charge has been shaken. “If McClymonds were to burn down that day, what would be the plan OUSD would implement for all of this?” he asked. “Is there a plan in place for a natural disaster? It just seems like it took a little too long for us to have a plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashely, another senior, said, “It’s really stressful … It’s like: Oh, my god, again? We have ANOTHER issue at McClymonds? It’s just irritating, I don’t want to go through it.” She said moving campuses, dealing with this and ‘senior-itis’ is a lot. “I just want to give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My initial reaction was to do my research so I don’t make any wrong assumptions about what’s going on,” said Themba, a senior who wants to go to college to become a chemical engineer. “Let me figure out what’s going on, what’s TCE; I don’t want to just hear ‘it’s cancer.’ Let me figure out what it does, what’s the chemical?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his knack for information gathering, Themba said he didn’t attend any of the community meetings held after the discovery of the chemical “because I knew it was going to be hectic, I knew it was going loud,” he said, adding that he questioned people’s intentions: “Who are you really fighting for? Where do you stand? … Are you really here for the kids who want to learn?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ms. Saba received the talking piece from Themba and said, “This is not just about McClymonds, this is about something bigger than McClymonds. This is about years of environmental waste that’s impacting a specific community, when I say years, I’m talking about 30 to 40 years of history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003cem>Longer even\u003c/em>, I thought to myself.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876189\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher and the talking piece, Seraiah sitting behind him\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher and the talking piece, Seraiah sitting behind him \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, a noise outside the door interrupted the discussion. \u003cem>I’m about to slap these little girls in the face, so somebody better go get them right now\u003c/em>, said an adult’s voice from the hallway. \u003cem>Where is the principal? … I’m not dealing with this anymore. I done had every emotion this week, and they want to come in here being disrespectful…\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, tensions were high, and even the adults were on edge. Our circle sat quietly as the voice outside passed by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Taylor briefly stepped out to address the noise, while Ms. Saba broke the silence. “I don’t want ya’ll to get distracted, I want ya’ll to focus on what ya’ll want to share and what’s important to ya’ll. We have one more question before we close out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She instructed everyone to take a deep breath. “What do you think needs to be done to make things as right as possible? And what do you need? What do you personally need from your principal and from yourself and from your peers?” asked Ms. Saba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Taylor held the talking piece and said, “From everybody, we need a little compassion and a little understanding. Everybody’s anxiety levels are already past ten… The students, I need them to understand that, it’s not their fault, and it’s not our fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Taylor then somberly brought up \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/07/06/funeral-services-set-for-mcclymonds-football-standout-darryl-aikens/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darryl Aikens\u003c/a>, who was one of his students and who died of leukemia in 2017. “Everybody keeps using him as an excuse, you know, ‘He caught cancer from the school,’” Principal Taylor said in air-quotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t even know his mom. Don’t know his family. And they keep putting him out there, and it’s making his mother sick. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n a news cycle like ours, the closure of McClymonds High School in West Oakland might seem overshadowed by national headlines about the Grand Princess cruise ship, which on Monday carried people with coronavirus to the Port of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the McClymonds story is important. It’s a site where trichloroethylene (TCE), a cancer-causing chemical, was found in the groundwater late last month. And after two and a half weeks away from campus, it’s where students are scheduled to return to next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to TCE, the school is surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped freeway structure, thousands of shipping trucks and underground storage tanks– a number of them have resulted in documented leaks. That’s because West Oakland was an industrial bastion for the greater part of the 20th century. Numerous factories, plants and warehouses have sullied its soil. (The city’s only known EPA Superfund Site—a cleanup priority for the EPA— is \u003ca href=\"https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0905334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AMCO Chemical\u003c/a> in West Oakland.) \u003ca href=\"http://acphd.org/media/496252/air-pollution-health-impacts-west-oakland-acphd-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It’s home\u003c/a> to Alameda County’s highest levels of asthma and lowest life expectancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And who lives in West Oakland? During the decades of rampant redlining, it was one of the few places in the Bay Area African Americans could freely move into. That’s why McClymonds, historically, is a predominantly African American school. It’s also known for its legendary alums (Bill Russell and Frank Robinson, to name a few) and honored for its football team recently winning the state championship \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/McClymonds-is-a-state-football-champion-for-3rd-13469769.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three times in a row\u003c/a>. It’s a pillar of the community, and even with the changing demographics in the neighborhood due to gentrification, the school’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicschoolreview.com/mcclymonds-high-school-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported population\u003c/a> of 372 students is still 80% African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the coverage of McClymonds’ closure has centered on input from adults: elected officials, parents and school administrators. But what’s it like to be a student, in a literally toxic environment? I wanted to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876186\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876186\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Shoes and Shakur. Some of the items inside of the Restorative Justice Circle. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8532.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shoes and Shakur. Some of the items inside of the Restorative Justice Circle. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>nside the staff room at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland, Saba Ghebreyesus (or Ms. Saba as the students call her), director of the youth-led multimedia platform \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/direct/t/340282366841710300949128149233437389874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IceeHouse\u003c/a>, stood at the dry-erase board writing the agreements for a restorative justice circle. A few minutes later, a handful of students from McClymonds trickled in, followed by a teacher, Mr. Taylor (not to be confused with the McClymonds principal, Jeffrey Taylor, who was also present, as well as Oakland Unified School District Administrator Vanessa Sifuentes-Dimaano).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the circle at Bunche, where McClymonds students were temporarily relocated, was to give young folks an opportunity to discuss how they’re processing the news that a potentially harmful chemical was discovered under their school just weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The door closed and the students sat in a circle around a few items: an old sidekick two-way, a brick cellphone, the \u003cem>Tupac Shakur Legacy\u003c/em> book by Jamal Joseph, and the talking piece: a miniature statue of people in a rowboat. After some warm-up questions, Ms. Saba asked, “What was running through your mind and what were you feeling when you first heard a hazardous chemical was found at McClymonds?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I just kinda seen it as no school for us last week,” said a ninth grader named Christopher as he let out a slight laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miles, a 10th grader, brought up Ramone Sanders, a McClymonds alumnus who was diagnosed with cancer at 19 years old in 2019. “It was kind of like, wow, that could have really been responsible for his death,” he said. “And they could shut down the whole school because of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Dwayne, a senior at McClymonds stands in the hallway at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8548.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dwayne, a senior at McClymonds stands in the hallway at Ralph J. Bunche Academy in West Oakland \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other students brought up concerns about how missing class could impact their academic success. “Was that going to affect my credits? Was that going to affect my graduation?” asked a 12th grader named Neyionna. “The TCE, how long has it really been there?… I’m just saying, Mack just needs to be rebuilt, I think, because where Mack is, is an industrial area: the factories, the gas stations… And it’s all black [people], so yeah, I think that’s kinda racist,” she concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior named Dwayne pointed out that news of contamination affected his and other students’ mental health. “I have something called generalized anxiety disorder. It gets triggered by events like this,” he said. “I’m a hypochondriac as well. So, I was like, ‘I definitely have cancer.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shared that he’s angry and confused, and that his trust in the adults in charge has been shaken. “If McClymonds were to burn down that day, what would be the plan OUSD would implement for all of this?” he asked. “Is there a plan in place for a natural disaster? It just seems like it took a little too long for us to have a plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashely, another senior, said, “It’s really stressful … It’s like: Oh, my god, again? We have ANOTHER issue at McClymonds? It’s just irritating, I don’t want to go through it.” She said moving campuses, dealing with this and ‘senior-itis’ is a lot. “I just want to give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My initial reaction was to do my research so I don’t make any wrong assumptions about what’s going on,” said Themba, a senior who wants to go to college to become a chemical engineer. “Let me figure out what’s going on, what’s TCE; I don’t want to just hear ‘it’s cancer.’ Let me figure out what it does, what’s the chemical?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his knack for information gathering, Themba said he didn’t attend any of the community meetings held after the discovery of the chemical “because I knew it was going to be hectic, I knew it was going loud,” he said, adding that he questioned people’s intentions: “Who are you really fighting for? Where do you stand? … Are you really here for the kids who want to learn?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ms. Saba received the talking piece from Themba and said, “This is not just about McClymonds, this is about something bigger than McClymonds. This is about years of environmental waste that’s impacting a specific community, when I say years, I’m talking about 30 to 40 years of history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003cem>Longer even\u003c/em>, I thought to myself.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876189\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher and the talking piece, Seraiah sitting behind him\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8531.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher and the talking piece, Seraiah sitting behind him \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, a noise outside the door interrupted the discussion. \u003cem>I’m about to slap these little girls in the face, so somebody better go get them right now\u003c/em>, said an adult’s voice from the hallway. \u003cem>Where is the principal? … I’m not dealing with this anymore. I done had every emotion this week, and they want to come in here being disrespectful…\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, tensions were high, and even the adults were on edge. Our circle sat quietly as the voice outside passed by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Taylor briefly stepped out to address the noise, while Ms. Saba broke the silence. “I don’t want ya’ll to get distracted, I want ya’ll to focus on what ya’ll want to share and what’s important to ya’ll. We have one more question before we close out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She instructed everyone to take a deep breath. “What do you think needs to be done to make things as right as possible? And what do you need? What do you personally need from your principal and from yourself and from your peers?” asked Ms. Saba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Taylor held the talking piece and said, “From everybody, we need a little compassion and a little understanding. Everybody’s anxiety levels are already past ten… The students, I need them to understand that, it’s not their fault, and it’s not our fault.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Taylor then somberly brought up \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/07/06/funeral-services-set-for-mcclymonds-football-standout-darryl-aikens/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darryl Aikens\u003c/a>, who was one of his students and who died of leukemia in 2017. “Everybody keeps using him as an excuse, you know, ‘He caught cancer from the school,’” Principal Taylor said in air-quotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t even know his mom. Don’t know his family. And they keep putting him out there, and it’s making his mother sick. His grandmother sick… I just want it to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa from OUSD’s central office took the talking piece, and noted that “compassion and empathy” are required on all fronts; she concluded by asking that the students, “Continue to be that voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876192\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13876192\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Miles talks while Principal Taylor sits in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/DSC8541.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miles talks while Principal Taylor sits in the background. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>iles, designer scarf around his forehead and a big jacket, took the talking piece and brought the discussion to another form of toxicity that exists at many schools, not just McClymonds. “What I need from the staff is for them to show that they actually care,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that some faculty members bring their own issues with them to the classroom, and leave it to the students to educate themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re supposed to be teaching us, we’re not adults yet. I’m only in the 10th grade,” said Miles. “They’re looking at us like we’re 35. Like we’re supposed to be teaching them. They’ve gotta teach us.” He was met with at least one person’s supportive applause when he made that point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The talking piece landed back in Ms. Saba’s hands. She closed the circle by thanking all the participants and ended by sharing a quote from Margaret Mead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world,” she recited. “Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And Frank was one of those guys.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson, who grew up in West Oakland and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11724660/oakland-raised-former-giants-manager-and-baseball-pioneer-frank-robinson-dies-at-83\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died\u003c/a> on Thursday at the age of 83, more than fulfilled that early potential. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He ranks 10th on the all-time home run list and is the only person to win baseball’s Most Valuable Player award in both leagues. On top of that, he was the first African-American manager in both leagues (including a four-year stint with the Giants in the early ’80s), a Hall of Famer and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?189856-1/presidential-medal-freedom\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recipient\u003c/a> of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one could argue that he wasn’t even the best athlete in his high school class. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a pretty incredible story,” Brekke-Miesner said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the 1951-52 school year, and Robinson played baseball and basketball for McClymonds High School. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the basketball team, he was joined by Bill Russell, almost universally regarded as one of the greatest basketball players in history. Russell won 11 NBA titles, five MVP awards and was the first African-American head coach in any U.S. professional sport. He also has \u003ca href=\"http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/20821673/bill-russell-takes-knee-presidential-medal-freedom-twitter-photo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his own\u003c/a> Presidential Medal of Freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the baseball team, Robinson shared the diamond with Curt Flood, one of the best center fielders of all time and the reason that professional athletes today can become free agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1970, Flood — a three-time all-star and seven-time Gold Glove winner — challenged what was known as baseball’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/how-curt-flood-changed-baseball-and-killed-his-career-in-the-process/241783/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reserve clause\u003c/a>, which prevented a player from signing with another team even after their contract expired. The Supreme Court ruled against Flood in 1972, but his case pushed the conversation forward, and in 1975, baseball abolished the reserve clause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11725246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Oakland_Tribune_Wed__Jun_4__1952_-1-800x1025.jpg\" alt=\"The June 4, 1952, issue of the Oakland Tribune touts the five McClymonds baseball players named to all-city team, including Frank Robinson, pictured standing in the back row.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1025\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11725246\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Oakland_Tribune_Wed__Jun_4__1952_-1-800x1025.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Oakland_Tribune_Wed__Jun_4__1952_-1-160x205.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Oakland_Tribune_Wed__Jun_4__1952_-1-1020x1307.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Oakland_Tribune_Wed__Jun_4__1952_-1-937x1200.jpg 937w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Oakland_Tribune_Wed__Jun_4__1952_-1-1920x2459.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The June 4, 1952, issue of the Oakland Tribune touts the five McClymonds baseball players named to all-city team, including Frank Robinson, pictured standing in the back row. \u003ccite>(Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Imagine one high school year, one neighborhood that produced those three who went on to do incredible things in the world of sports,” Brekke-Miesner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson and Flood helped McClymonds go undefeated that year, and Robinson and Russell’s basketball team won the coveted Tournament of Champions, the de facto state championship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three legends pointed to their coach at McClymonds, George Powles, as one of the greatest influences in their lives, both as athletes and human beings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powles was the first person Robinson thanked in his 1982 Hall of Fame induction speech. He said Powles taught him to play the game the “right way,” to always give 100 percent and also how to accept defeat and build from it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“George Powles gave me the foundation I’m still building on,” Robinson told the crowd in Cooperstown, New York. “I want to say to George Powles, ‘Thank you for all the youth of Oakland,’ because I know they appreciate it like I did and still do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/91xAdDDzk1I?t=288\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was just one of those amazing coaches and had a powerful impact on all three of them,” Brekke-Miesner said of Powles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before coming across Powles as teenagers, Brekke-Miesner said young athletes in Oakland like Robinson, Russell and Flood had access to an excellent park and recreation system. Bushrod Park was a haven for baseball stars like Robinson and Flood, and Russell played pick up games on the basketball courts at de Fremery Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brekke-Miesner also pointed to an early 20th century agreement between the city and the school district to put a male and female playground director at every elementary school playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That experience on the playgrounds of Oakland over the years was typically the first coaching and competitive sports that any kid had in Oakland, and they had that from the time they’re in kindergarten or first grade,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those playgrounds were filled with young, talented kids, many of them whose families were part of the Great Migration of African-American families who moved to Oakland from the South in the first half of the 20th century. Robinson and Flood were both born in Texas, and Russell was born in Louisiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brekke-Miesner remembers talking to John Brodie, a former MVP quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, who played against Robinson, Russell and Flood when he was at Oakland Tech. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And he said you couldn’t help but get better playing against that level of competition,” Brekke-Miesner said. “So I think that was very significant in the development of Frank Robinson, not just the coaching but the kind of competition he was playing against every day in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He also has \u003ca href=\"http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/20821673/bill-russell-takes-knee-presidential-medal-freedom-twitter-photo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his own\u003c/a> Presidential Medal of Freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the baseball team, Robinson shared the diamond with Curt Flood, one of the best center fielders of all time and the reason that professional athletes today can become free agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1970, Flood — a three-time all-star and seven-time Gold Glove winner — challenged what was known as baseball’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/how-curt-flood-changed-baseball-and-killed-his-career-in-the-process/241783/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reserve clause\u003c/a>, which prevented a player from signing with another team even after their contract expired. The Supreme Court ruled against Flood in 1972, but his case pushed the conversation forward, and in 1975, baseball abolished the reserve clause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11725246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Oakland_Tribune_Wed__Jun_4__1952_-1-800x1025.jpg\" alt=\"The June 4, 1952, issue of the Oakland Tribune touts the five McClymonds baseball players named to all-city team, including Frank Robinson, pictured standing in the back row.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1025\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11725246\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Oakland_Tribune_Wed__Jun_4__1952_-1-800x1025.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Oakland_Tribune_Wed__Jun_4__1952_-1-160x205.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Oakland_Tribune_Wed__Jun_4__1952_-1-1020x1307.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Oakland_Tribune_Wed__Jun_4__1952_-1-937x1200.jpg 937w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Oakland_Tribune_Wed__Jun_4__1952_-1-1920x2459.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The June 4, 1952, issue of the Oakland Tribune touts the five McClymonds baseball players named to all-city team, including Frank Robinson, pictured standing in the back row. \u003ccite>(Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Imagine one high school year, one neighborhood that produced those three who went on to do incredible things in the world of sports,” Brekke-Miesner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson and Flood helped McClymonds go undefeated that year, and Robinson and Russell’s basketball team won the coveted Tournament of Champions, the de facto state championship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three legends pointed to their coach at McClymonds, George Powles, as one of the greatest influences in their lives, both as athletes and human beings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powles was the first person Robinson thanked in his 1982 Hall of Fame induction speech. 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"content": "\u003cp>Baseball Hall of Famer Frank Robinson, who made history as a player, manager and league executive, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/news/frank-robinson-dies/c-303656538\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died Thursday\u003c/a> at 83 at his home in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson, one of the game’s most feared sluggers and \u003ca href=\"https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/robinson-frank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a fierce competitor\u003c/a>, starred in both of baseball’s major leagues. He later became baseball’s first African-American manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFGiants/status/1093627238732288000\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frank Robinson’s resume in our game is without parallel, a trailblazer in every sense, whose impact spanned generations,” Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-mourns-the-passing-of-hall-of-famer-frank-robinson/c-303660976\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a>. “He was one of the greatest players in the history of our game, but that was just the beginning of a multifaceted baseball career.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson broke into the majors in 1956 as a hot hitter and graceful fielder with the National League’s Cincinnati Reds. He was the NL Most Valuable Player in 1961, the same year the Reds won the league pennant. But by 1965, despite hitting 33 home runs and driving in 113 runs, the team’s management considered him old and expendable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson responded to that judgment with a vengeance: In 1966, the year after he was traded to the American League’s Baltimore Orioles, he led the team to a World Series victory while winning the Triple Crown and the Most Valuable Player awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frank took us from being a good team in 1965 to being a great team in 1966,” Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-frank-robinson-20190207-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Sun\u003c/a>. “I’m glad Cincinnati thought he was ‘an old 30’ when they traded him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/robinfr02.shtml\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">six years\u003c/a> Robinson spent as an Oriole, the team went to the World Series four times and won twice, in 1966 and 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian \u003ca href=\"http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/8944321/no-one-tried-embarrass-frank-robinson-got-away-it\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">writes\u003c/a> that “Robinson is one of the most underrated superstar players ever to play the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“With that 1966 season, Robinson became the first — and remains the only — player to win the MVP in both leagues. He also finished third in the MVP voting twice, fourth twice and in the top 10 a total of 10 times. He made 13 All-Star teams. He won National League Rookie of the Year in 1956, hitting .290 with 38 home runs at age 20 for the Reds. And while he never led his league in a Triple Crown category other than in 1966 when he managed it in all three, he led his league in slugging percentage, OPS and OPS+ four times, including three years in a row (1960-62). And he led his league in runs scored three times, in being hit by pitches seven times and in intentional walks four times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Robinson is currently 10th on the all-time home run list with 586.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are statues of Robinson at the ballparks in Baltimore and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/mlb/2017/01/24/former-reds-great-frank-robinson-get-statue-cleveland/96990996/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson became a player-manager of the Cleveland Indians in 1975, hitting a home run on opening day that year at the age of 39.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/robinfr02.shtml\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">manage\u003c/a> the San Francisco Giants (1981-1984), and then returned to Baltimore as skipper (1988-1991) before ending his field career managing the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals franchise (2002-2006).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson also worked for the game off the field as a consultant, and then executive, with the commissioner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in Beaumont, Texas, Robinson was raised in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/Frank-Robinson-SF-Giants-manager-and-baseball-13598394.php?t=10f9841d3a&f?\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Oakland\u003c/a>, where he attended McClymonds High School along with future NBA Hall of Famer Bill Russell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RealBillRussell/status/1093614180874113024\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Baseball Hall of Famer Frank Robinson, who made history as a player, manager and league executive, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/news/frank-robinson-dies/c-303656538\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died Thursday\u003c/a> at 83 at his home in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson, one of the game’s most feared sluggers and \u003ca href=\"https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/robinson-frank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a fierce competitor\u003c/a>, starred in both of baseball’s major leagues. He later became baseball’s first African-American manager.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson responded to that judgment with a vengeance: In 1966, the year after he was traded to the American League’s Baltimore Orioles, he led the team to a World Series victory while winning the Triple Crown and the Most Valuable Player awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frank took us from being a good team in 1965 to being a great team in 1966,” Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-frank-robinson-20190207-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Sun\u003c/a>. “I’m glad Cincinnati thought he was ‘an old 30’ when they traded him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/robinfr02.shtml\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">six years\u003c/a> Robinson spent as an Oriole, the team went to the World Series four times and won twice, in 1966 and 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian \u003ca href=\"http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/8944321/no-one-tried-embarrass-frank-robinson-got-away-it\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">writes\u003c/a> that “Robinson is one of the most underrated superstar players ever to play the game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“With that 1966 season, Robinson became the first — and remains the only — player to win the MVP in both leagues. He also finished third in the MVP voting twice, fourth twice and in the top 10 a total of 10 times. He made 13 All-Star teams. He won National League Rookie of the Year in 1956, hitting .290 with 38 home runs at age 20 for the Reds. And while he never led his league in a Triple Crown category other than in 1966 when he managed it in all three, he led his league in slugging percentage, OPS and OPS+ four times, including three years in a row (1960-62). And he led his league in runs scored three times, in being hit by pitches seven times and in intentional walks four times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Robinson is currently 10th on the all-time home run list with 586.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are statues of Robinson at the ballparks in Baltimore and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/mlb/2017/01/24/former-reds-great-frank-robinson-get-statue-cleveland/96990996/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson became a player-manager of the Cleveland Indians in 1975, hitting a home run on opening day that year at the age of 39.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/robinfr02.shtml\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">manage\u003c/a> the San Francisco Giants (1981-1984), and then returned to Baltimore as skipper (1988-1991) before ending his field career managing the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals franchise (2002-2006).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson also worked for the game off the field as a consultant, and then executive, with the commissioner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in Beaumont, Texas, Robinson was raised in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/Frank-Robinson-SF-Giants-manager-and-baseball-13598394.php?t=10f9841d3a&f?\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Oakland\u003c/a>, where he attended McClymonds High School along with future NBA Hall of Famer Bill Russell.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>This was originally published Aug. 18, 2018.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first day of school at McClymonds High School in Oakland, Cynthia Gilbert (Ms. Cynthia to the kids) from the front office is running the registration tables, students and teachers are chatting in hallways decked out with murals, and after days of buffing, the checkered linoleum floors are gleaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, in room 308, LuPaulette Taylor is getting ready for class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's exciting,” she says. “You have a new chance to make new mistakes and to do things better than you did the year before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s enthusiasm is a welcome note in a district that is still short 30 teachers at the start of the new year. It's all the more important at a school like McClymonds, sometimes referred to as \"Mack,\" where it’s especially hard to hold onto teachers, and more remarkable still, coming from someone starting her 49th year on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s spent nearly all of those years right here at Mack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She goes by Dr. Taylor, or most of the time, just DT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody knows who DT is,” 16-year-old senior K’aun Green says. He’s a little nervous about his first English class with her. DT’s got a reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as you step in that’s the first thing you'll hear about — DT, DT,” he says about coming to McClymonds as a freshman. “That’s what I was hearing about and I didn’t even know who she was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As students start filing in to Taylor’s class, she checks in with kids she knows, asks others when they started at Mack, and shouts orders at passers by. “Missy over there, pull that shirt down! Why is that hat on in the building?” Her tone is a mix of affection and affront, honed for maximum effect. “No phones out!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the students are settled, Taylor starts off by telling the class about herself, “I graduated from McClymonds, 50 some years ago, 1966.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She gives the coordinates of her West Oakland childhood, “9th Street between Cypress and Center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids can start plotting the arc of her life, “I went to Prescott,” she says. “How many people went to Prescott?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11687375 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-1020x716.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-1200x842.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-960x674.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-375x263.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-520x365.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150.jpg 1627w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor during her second period English class. In her 45 years at McClymonds she's been principal, vice principal, softball and basketball coach, among other jobs. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s no whispering, no phones buzzing. She tells the kids she turned down other job offers to stay here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just didn’t feel right. I just felt like I should be here because this was home and this is my neighborhood, if you understand it, ok?\" she says. \"Some of you, I taught your grandparents. I can't even believe it's been that long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s the students’ turn to introduce themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ok,” Taylor eyes the kids. “We gonna start over here or should we start over here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over there, over there!” students shout, pointing across the room. “Start with him!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor tells the students they’ll have to stand in front of the class. “It’s practice for senior project and the other presentations we’re gonna do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groans all around. “Man!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green steps to the front of the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel good today,” he says. “I’m excited to be a senior because I like to be looked up to by the 9th and 10th graders. I’m anxious about DT’s class and how much work I’m gonna receive. Yeah, I’m scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He trails off, but he’s grinning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green is one of those students with deep ties to Taylor. She’s taught generations of his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor emphasizes college preparation in her classes, guiding seniors through personal statements and helping them secure scholarships. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Since she knows my mom and my dad I can't really goof around,” Green says. \"A lot of the teachers get run out of here because of the students at Mack. A lot of the teachers, they don’t get the same respect as she does from the students. She doesn’t ask for it, you just give it because of the history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a few people on campus who share some of that history, but nobody’s been here as long as Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The turnover at our school — it's like sometimes we meet new teachers on the first day, and by Christmas they're gone, sometimes Thanksgiving they're gone,” says McClymonds social worker Relonda McGhee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only about 15 percent of teachers stay on for a third year here. It’s the worst \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/t/HR/views/RetentionDashboardPublic/TeachersatSites?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no#5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retention rate\u003c/a> in the district with one exception, a continuation school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Jarod Scott is pleased because less than half the teachers are new this year. That’s a big improvement, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGhee cites high turnover among administrators and inexperience as reasons teachers leave. \u003ca href=\"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4775245-McClymonds-SARC.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nearly half\u003c/a> of teachers at McClymonds last year weren’t fully credentialed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also says teachers choose to leave for schools where hunger, grief and conflict aren’t vying for attention in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some adults cannot handle that,” McGhee says. “They do a year and then they're gone because it's too overwhelming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Taylor sees it, teaching is a small part of the job. On any given day she might alternate between counselor, grandmother, auntie, cousin, social worker and preacher, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don't ever get to just teach and you don't get to leave the kids here if you're doing what you're supposed to,” she says. “You take them home with you mentally and you try to figure out, ‘What else can I do?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, a student reminded her about the time she showed up at his house one morning, unannounced, and dragged him to school. He hadn’t been showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What really hurts me is when I see kids giving up and they've done so well,” Taylor says. “When I see things get so bad for them they just sort of disappear — physically, or they check out mentally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some days she can get weary, but she's always learning. That’s the part about school — about teaching — that she still loves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was something that I always wanted to be when I was little. I think because I always enjoyed school. I enjoyed reading, I enjoyed math, I enjoyed experimenting when we did science. I liked everything about school. I liked recess. I liked PE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687377\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A card from a student depicting a favorite snack. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor started teaching at 21, at what was then Hoover Junior High. She had a hard time at first, so she says she spent as much time as she could in other teacher’s rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I didn't have a class I was in somebody’s class observing what was going on, how they did it, how I could make it my own,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687378\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A card Taylor saved from a student. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Almost 50 years later she’s still at it. She drops in on new hires to see what they have to teach her. “I'm still learning,” she says. “I get excited when I learn something new.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, she just likes what she does. “I look forward to it like 97 percent of the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On days when she doesn’t want to get out of bed, she says, “Coming here and getting around the kids, I feel better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s almost 70, but she’s not planning to leave any time soon. It’s not right here yet, she says, too much coming and going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her colleagues aren’t eager to see her go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would take about four or five people to replace Dr. Taylor if she decides to retire,” Scott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully in the next couple of years we'll have a lot of people who can keep it rolling,” McGhee says. “Them’s some big shoes to step in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687379\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor's classroom door at McClymonds High School in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of the school day, a former student comes by to visit. She just graduated and is headed to USC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s so exciting,” Taylor says. After checking on the student’s transportation and finances, and offering help getting more scholarship money, she sends last year’s valedictorian off with a hug. “Be good. Call me if you need anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By now the school day is long over. Taylor could be at home, but another student just walked through the door.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s spent nearly all of those years right here at Mack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She goes by Dr. Taylor, or most of the time, just DT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody knows who DT is,” 16-year-old senior K’aun Green says. He’s a little nervous about his first English class with her. DT’s got a reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as you step in that’s the first thing you'll hear about — DT, DT,” he says about coming to McClymonds as a freshman. “That’s what I was hearing about and I didn’t even know who she was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As students start filing in to Taylor’s class, she checks in with kids she knows, asks others when they started at Mack, and shouts orders at passers by. “Missy over there, pull that shirt down! Why is that hat on in the building?” Her tone is a mix of affection and affront, honed for maximum effect. “No phones out!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the students are settled, Taylor starts off by telling the class about herself, “I graduated from McClymonds, 50 some years ago, 1966.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She gives the coordinates of her West Oakland childhood, “9th Street between Cypress and Center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids can start plotting the arc of her life, “I went to Prescott,” she says. “How many people went to Prescott?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11687375 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-1020x716.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-1200x842.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-960x674.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-375x263.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150-520x365.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor3-e1534527772150.jpg 1627w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor during her second period English class. In her 45 years at McClymonds she's been principal, vice principal, softball and basketball coach, among other jobs. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s no whispering, no phones buzzing. She tells the kids she turned down other job offers to stay here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just didn’t feel right. I just felt like I should be here because this was home and this is my neighborhood, if you understand it, ok?\" she says. \"Some of you, I taught your grandparents. I can't even believe it's been that long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now it’s the students’ turn to introduce themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ok,” Taylor eyes the kids. “We gonna start over here or should we start over here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over there, over there!” students shout, pointing across the room. “Start with him!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor tells the students they’ll have to stand in front of the class. “It’s practice for senior project and the other presentations we’re gonna do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groans all around. “Man!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green steps to the front of the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel good today,” he says. “I’m excited to be a senior because I like to be looked up to by the 9th and 10th graders. I’m anxious about DT’s class and how much work I’m gonna receive. Yeah, I’m scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He trails off, but he’s grinning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green is one of those students with deep ties to Taylor. She’s taught generations of his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor emphasizes college preparation in her classes, guiding seniors through personal statements and helping them secure scholarships. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Since she knows my mom and my dad I can't really goof around,” Green says. \"A lot of the teachers get run out of here because of the students at Mack. A lot of the teachers, they don’t get the same respect as she does from the students. She doesn’t ask for it, you just give it because of the history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a few people on campus who share some of that history, but nobody’s been here as long as Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The turnover at our school — it's like sometimes we meet new teachers on the first day, and by Christmas they're gone, sometimes Thanksgiving they're gone,” says McClymonds social worker Relonda McGhee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only about 15 percent of teachers stay on for a third year here. It’s the worst \u003ca href=\"https://dashboards.ousd.org/t/HR/views/RetentionDashboardPublic/TeachersatSites?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowShareOptions=true&%3Adisplay_count=no&%3AshowVizHome=no#5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retention rate\u003c/a> in the district with one exception, a continuation school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Principal Jarod Scott is pleased because less than half the teachers are new this year. That’s a big improvement, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGhee cites high turnover among administrators and inexperience as reasons teachers leave. \u003ca href=\"http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4775245-McClymonds-SARC.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nearly half\u003c/a> of teachers at McClymonds last year weren’t fully credentialed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also says teachers choose to leave for schools where hunger, grief and conflict aren’t vying for attention in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some adults cannot handle that,” McGhee says. “They do a year and then they're gone because it's too overwhelming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Taylor sees it, teaching is a small part of the job. On any given day she might alternate between counselor, grandmother, auntie, cousin, social worker and preacher, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don't ever get to just teach and you don't get to leave the kids here if you're doing what you're supposed to,” she says. “You take them home with you mentally and you try to figure out, ‘What else can I do?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, a student reminded her about the time she showed up at his house one morning, unannounced, and dragged him to school. He hadn’t been showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What really hurts me is when I see kids giving up and they've done so well,” Taylor says. “When I see things get so bad for them they just sort of disappear — physically, or they check out mentally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some days she can get weary, but she's always learning. That’s the part about school — about teaching — that she still loves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was something that I always wanted to be when I was little. I think because I always enjoyed school. I enjoyed reading, I enjoyed math, I enjoyed experimenting when we did science. I liked everything about school. I liked recess. I liked PE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687377\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor5-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A card from a student depicting a favorite snack. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor started teaching at 21, at what was then Hoover Junior High. She had a hard time at first, so she says she spent as much time as she could in other teacher’s rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I didn't have a class I was in somebody’s class observing what was going on, how they did it, how I could make it my own,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687378\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor6-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A card Taylor saved from a student. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Almost 50 years later she’s still at it. She drops in on new hires to see what they have to teach her. “I'm still learning,” she says. “I get excited when I learn something new.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, she just likes what she does. “I look forward to it like 97 percent of the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On days when she doesn’t want to get out of bed, she says, “Coming here and getting around the kids, I feel better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s almost 70, but she’s not planning to leave any time soon. It’s not right here yet, she says, too much coming and going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her colleagues aren’t eager to see her go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would take about four or five people to replace Dr. Taylor if she decides to retire,” Scott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully in the next couple of years we'll have a lot of people who can keep it rolling,” McGhee says. “Them’s some big shoes to step in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11687379\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/DrTaylor7-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor's classroom door at McClymonds High School in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of the school day, a former student comes by to visit. She just graduated and is headed to USC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s so exciting,” Taylor says. After checking on the student’s transportation and finances, and offering help getting more scholarship money, she sends last year’s valedictorian off with a hug. “Be good. Call me if you need anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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