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Returning to the topic of Biden's victory
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The lake in the crater at Crater Lake is named "Crater Lake".
The island in Crater Lake is named "Wizard Island".
The island in Crater Lake is named "Wizard Island".
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"I'm not gunna cut Social Security like every other Republican. I'm not gunna cut Medicare or Medicaid." Candidate Donald Trump 15/05/26
"I am going to take care of everybody. I don't care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody's gunna be taken care of much better than they're taken care of now." Candidate Trump 15/09/27 to CBS Scott Pelly
"You're going to have such great healthcare at a tiny fraction of the cost."candidate Trump 16/10/25 from campaign podium
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Jonathan Kozol had been teaching for six months when he decided to read his students a Langston Hughes poem. By the following morning, Boston Public Schools had ended his career over a single classroom decision.
Kozol was 28 years old in the spring of 1965. A Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar, he had come to Roxbury by choice, taking a substitute position in a neighborhood that most young teachers from his background would never have sought out.
His class was fourth grade. The students were Black children in a Boston school system that was, at that moment, one of the most racially divided in the northern United States.
On a day in May, Kozol read them "The Ballad of the Landlord" by Langston Hughes. The poem, published in 1940, takes the voice of a tenant demanding repairs from a landlord who refuses to fix a broken stoop and a leaking roof. When the tenant protests, he is arrested. The poem was not on the approved reading list.
That was enough.
The school principal reported the incident. The district reviewed it. Kozol was told he had used "curriculum materials offensive to the community" and was dismissed. He had been in that classroom for one day of that particular assignment.
The firing might have disappeared quietly. Instead, Kozol refused to go quietly.
He wrote about what had happened, about the schools in Roxbury, about the condition of the buildings and the thinness of the resources and the way the system sorted children before they had any say in the matter. That writing eventually became a book, published in 1967, called "Death at an Early Age."
It won the National Book Award.
The poem that cost him his job. The classroom that the district wanted forgotten. The children the system had already decided were not worth the best of what a teacher could offer.
None of it stayed quiet.
Jonathan Kozol. Fired for reading Langston Hughes to a fourth-grade class in Roxbury. The teacher Boston tried to silence, and the book that made sure it didn't work.
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