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New City Kids 2014 Report Card
100% of our 12 seniors from the 2013 – 2014 school year graduated and enrolled in college this fall!
15 Teen Life Interns went on our annual college tour to 13 campuses where they talked to 19 New City Kids alumni about their college experience.
Participants in our SAT prep classes saw their scores improve by 136 points on average.
Over 500 one-on-one mentoring hours were invested in our Teen Life Interns by adult staff.
30 teens participated in City Sail: our free summer sailing program.
Average daily After School Center attendance has risen from 80 to 94 kids at our Fairmount Ave. site.
35 kids each received over 50 hours of musical instruction in keyboard, bass, voice, or drums.
68 children made it into gold club! They completed all three levels of extra credit including: literary devices, geometry, and geography.
14 first grade students each started a new class designed to get them up to grade level in reading.
61 children enrolled in music school, learning drums, bass, vocals, or piano.
Pay attention to your gut feelings.
No matter how good something looks,
if it doesn't feel right, walk away.
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Yes; I've been reading NJ.com again.
More news below. Warning; graphic, senseless violence.
Planting seeds in the shadow of Curries Woods, (projects, looming in background).
Meanwhile; Across The Street,
This Week in Jersey City, New Jersey:
3 People shot in Mercer Park in Bayonne, police say by Ron Zeitlinger The Jersey Journal
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2 Mercer Park shooting victims in critical condition: hospital spokesman by Michaelangelo Conte June 22 2015 The Jersey Journal
13-year-old boy stabbed in upper shoulder on Garfield Avenue in Jersey City by The Jersey Journal June 22 2015
Two people dead in at least four shootings in one day in Jersey City by The Jersey Journal June 14 2015
The Jersey Journal - 2013 Hudson County homicide map
All, so sad.
♥RIP♥ Isaiah Jackson 21♥
I don't know this young man, but I see myself in him.
I see him; as representing, all these young people I read about getting shot, or killed.
He has that kind of face. Just another; innocent, dumb kid.
Too Young To Die!
Someone has to do something to help these young people.
Since I haven't been seeing enough action from our politicians, etc. I appointed myself for the task!
In the 60's, we would call what's happening in America's cities, "genocide".
I often think, "how convenient, teach people. to kill themselves." So; I decided to tell everyone, how not, to, fall for Society's lies and traps.
I remember how dumb I was when I was I teenager. Not hip at all, to anything.
I don't even remember anything I learned in grammar school, except reading and the, Revolutionary War. I also remember a couple of art classes (and math which I couldn't do at all).
No one ever explained anything to us. ie, why something was not good. They probably didn't know themselves way back then.
In my times the 1960's (*17 in 1967). If there was any Love out there that summer, it wasn't in New Jersey.
With the political unrest, "Society", was encouraging young people to do all the wrong things. Drugs, like nowadays, were glorified.
But you'd still get busted; in a heart beat, if you were a poor person and got caught with some.
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