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Who am I?

November 15th, 2010 by ellie from Paul Robeson High School

Who am I? This I may never know.

Maybe my culture lives in me.

A culture I may never know.

I feel lost in a world so cold,

and filled with darkness.

A world so dark I can not

see clearly who am I.

This same question gets stuck in

my head everyday.

I’m in need of light in this

struggle’s fight I’m losing.

I don’t know who I am.

I have different personalities.

In search of my reality.

Migraines, pains, and aches trying

to answer the question that got

me here in the first place.

Soon I will have the answer

To this question.

It is in my final destination.

Again I ask myself the question: Who am I?

—Amin Abdullah

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The Peace Lab

April 8th, 2010 by ellie from Paul Robeson High School

Over 20 students worked on our banner for the entrance of Robeson’s Peace Lab. The Peace Lab was named by Jonathan because “it’s a place of experimentation, where lots of things are going on–like a laboratory.”

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Paul Robeson faces phase-out

March 4th, 2010 by ellie from Paul Robeson High School

[See post to watch Flash video]

Last year, only 40 percent of the students at Paul Robeson graduated in four years, and the Department of Education says that’s the primary reason the school should be closed. In 2007-08, the graduation rate was 56.7%. In 2008-09, the graduation rate fell precipitously to 40.1%. Credit accumulation rates are also low:In 2008-09, only 58.4% of first-year students accumulated 10 or more credits. Low expectations, low attendance rates, and low graduation rates are all reasons the Department of Education cites for why it wants to close the high school. Twenty-one schools have been told that the Department of Education will begin their phase out in September 2010. Fifteen of those schools — a completely disproportionate number — were high schools. They will phase out in 2013.

Paul Robeson’s Peace Lab filmed at the high school in December. This is an excerpt of our documentary about the phasing out of Robeson.

Researched by Celeste

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Filming frenzy at Robeson

December 21st, 2009 by J. Pope from Paul Robeson High School

Nixon as the teacher who can't control his students

Ferdinando filming the "making of" documentary

Leading actor and actress listening to directions

Filming scene 2

Here at Robeson High School we are working on a safe sex PSA, written by Quinten during our PSA writing workshop. We’ve shot Scenes 1, 2, 5 and 7 in the past week.