Daily News | 📣 Cheering and ‘proving people wrong’ | Morning Newsletter
🎤 And now I’m handing over the microphone to education reporter Kristen GrahamAs the reporter who covers the Philadelphia School District, there’s plenty of struggle and controversy to write about on my beat. But there’s also a ton of bright spots, and as soon as I heard about the George Washington High cheer team and their historic quest to get to nationals, I knew I wanted to highlight — and spend significant time — with the team.
This is a talented, smart, diverse group of kids, a relatively new competitive cheer team that’s working hard not just to perfect routines, but to tell their story to the world in hopes of raising $30,000 to make it to Dallas and the spot they earned on a much larger stage than they’ve ever had access to, with far fewer resources than the teams they compete against.
Photographer Heather Khalifa, videographer Jenna Miller, and I spent multiple days in George Washington’s gym, getting to know the team and the coaches and hearing their story. It was an object lesson in what the kids go through — you try spending time in a gym with no air-conditioning on a sweltering summer day, spending hours performing athletic feats I could never do!
I think so often people hear “Philadelphia School District” and have an idea — a mistaken idea — about who the kids who attend the city’s 216 public schools are. I’m always trying to show readers the true, nuanced picture of the city’s school system, and I hope this story is one such look!
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