{"id":1211,"date":"2021-09-29T19:24:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T19:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/5\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2023-05-31T17:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T17:19:41","slug":"r5-every-student-succeeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/5\/r5-every-student-succeeding\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Region 5 Every Student Succeeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kad-youtube-shortcode videofit\"  ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AuDoklsBNf0?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;fs=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;theme=dark&amp;rel=0&amp;loop=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Tenacity has helped student pursue her passion for social change<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Monia Walker<\/strong><br \/>\nGrade: 12<br \/>\nSchool: Abraham Lincoln High School<br \/>\nDistrict: San Francisco USD<br \/>\nACSA region: 5<\/p>\n<p>Monia Walker exudes charisma and confidence. Every morning, she made the one-hour commute to Abraham Lincoln High in San Francisco Unified School District. She decided to attend Abraham Lincoln as a result of limited opportunities in her home community.<\/p>\n<p>Monia quickly immersed herself in clubs and activities, including the Black Student Union. And this fall, she\u2019ll become the first person in her family to attend college. Monia plans to pursue a career in criminal justice at San Francisco State University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019re living in a community where you\u2019ve said you feel like there are limited opportunities. So you made the decision to commute to a school that is an hour away from your house. What is that commute like for you?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe commute that I go to school in is very challenging because it\u2019s not something that you find people doing every day. People normally go to school close to their homes and their neighborhoods. But for me, I like to take a challenge. I like to go further out. I like to learn more things about different people and see what they\u2019re really about. I like to take on new challenges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve been involved in the Black Student Union and you\u2019ve said diversity is very important to you. Why is that?<\/strong><br \/>\nDiversity matters so much to me because I live in a community where there\u2019s not just one particular race. There are so many different races in my community. And when I go to school, I\u2019m surrounded by different races. In my community, we like to share and we\u2019re like a family. When I go to school, it\u2019s different. So in the BSU, we\u2019re a family because we\u2019re trying to fight for equality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve had some encounters throughout your life that left you feeling inadequate. How have you been able to persevere through those moments?<\/strong><br \/>\nI don\u2019t listen to what people say. I just believe in motivation and tenacity. And I work for what I really want. If this is what I want, I\u2019m going to work for it. And I\u2019m not going to listen to what anyone is saying or let them bring me down because I know I\u2019m more than that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve expressed interest in studying criminal justice in college. Why does that appeal to you?<\/strong><br \/>\nI want to study criminal justice after high school because I\u2019ve always wanted to be a part of social change. In my community, that\u2019s what we do. On Christmas, we fed the homeless. We gave back. That\u2019s what we do. There are things that I\u2019ve witnessed in my community and in my school. I\u2019m in BSU. I\u2019m in a social justice change class. So, this is something I\u2019ve always wanted to do. And being the first in my family to go to college, that\u2019s something that I\u2019ve always wanted to do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What advice would you give to other students who are in similar situations?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy advice to people who are in similar situations is to keep tenacity. There\u2019s going to be a point in time where you want to give up and I know that. I\u2019ve been there before. But if this is something that you really want, you have to go for it. You have to keep going. You have to be motivated because your future is in your hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Tenacity has helped student pursue her passion for social change Monia Walker Grade: 12 School: Abraham Lincoln High School District: San Francisco USD ACSA region: 5 Monia Walker exudes charisma and confidence. Every morning, she made the one-hour commute &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/5\/r5-every-student-succeeding\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regions.acsa.org\/5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}