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Will Yandik

Will Yandik is an environmentalist and writer in Hudson, N.Y.

Brooklyn in Bloom

by Will Yandik | Thursday, June 27, 2013

Twain Abroad

by Will Yandik | Monday, June 24, 2013

If Music Be the Food of Love, Rock On

by Will Yandik | Monday, June 24, 2013

“… to Muddy Death”

by Will Yandik | Thursday, March 14, 2013

Scientists Warm Up to Thoreau

by Will Yandik | Tuesday, March 19, 2013

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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

School Survival

by Anne P. Beatty

As L.A. teachers prepare to go on strike, we’re revisiting an essay by Anne P. Beatty about her time teaching high school in South Central Los Angeles, where her homeroom class often paused for a moment of silence to mourn students who had died in drive-by shootings. Her students knew that this was not the case in wealthier school districts. “They knew that somewhere there were schools with computers that worked, just as they knew that somewhere it was safe to walk through the streets at night,” Beatty writes. “They knew it wasn’t normal for 16-year-olds to die.” But what she found shocking, her students had to learn to endure. “Apathy was involved in giving in to the violence, and there was despair over the prospect of a better future.”