Daytime's used to plot schemes for the night prowl

No need for intermission, I need trees in my system

so with class back in session, it's time to roll the sleeves back up and get into the swing of things. already been in three schools the first week meeting teachers, administrators, posting flyers, and greeting former and new students. ran into my mans from brockton and come to find out he's about to be my new source of students and project management. check out his portfolio and company here. definintely a good look.

the big news is that i've run into at least a half dozen students that earned college scholarships. many of them because they scored proficient on the MCAS and earned free rides to any state school. that is beautiful. even saw one cat who was about to hop on the road for a road trip to tennessee, where he'll start his first year this week on a scholarship at knoxville college. you could tell he was mad proud of himself.

but the elephant in the room is that there's a huge dropout issue in the bean. so building off of last year's report from the PIC, there's a lot in the works to try and address it. there's a new program in place to invite all the students that dropped out last year, to come back to school. only 34 out of 1660 agreed to do so. but it's a start, right? hopefully, one the projects some of my students will work on this year will be an opportunity to produce some high quality tech and media materials like PSAs and websites and brochures to highlight the issue from a student perspective. that should be an interesting and fun project. we'll see how it pans out though. still need to make sure all the ducks are in a row for the first wednesday after-school drop-in session next week. less than 10 days and counting. but hey, it could be worse, right? at least cats ain't striking like folks in detroit. yikes.

Seeing through sheisty shit, shining like I'm solar
Penetrate through darkness bounce like I'm sonar
Heltah Skeltah, "Prowl"