{"id":1715,"date":"2014-02-14T10:45:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T18:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2014-02-14T10:45:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T18:45:39","slug":"audio-perspectives-education-interrupted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2014\/02\/14\/audio-perspectives-education-interrupted\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio: Perspectives: Education Interrupted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Morgan Boeder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2014\/02\/MorganBoeder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1717\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2014\/02\/MorganBoeder-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"MorganBoeder\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a>I was sitting in my boyfriend&#8217;s room in my pajamas, picking out classes when I opened the email informing me that my school had lost its accreditation and might close its doors next year.<\/p>\n<p>It was definitely a shock and I immediately felt sad. Just getting to college had been a struggle for me.<\/p>\n<p>I dropped out of high school my sophomore year. I had a lot going on in my life. And even though I always planned to go back and get my diploma, there was still a fear in the back of my mind that somehow it wouldn&#8217;t work out.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually I found a program called Gateway to College. It&#8217;s for high school students to get their diplomas and college credits at the same time, and it came with a full scholarship to City College.<\/p>\n<p>This May, I got my high school diploma, and I began looking forward to eventually earning my bachelor&#8217;s degree. But then I found out about the school&#8217;s loss of accreditation, and now I&#8217;m not sure what to think about my educational future.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Listen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/a\/perspectives\/R201309050735\">Listen to the story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Morgan Boeder I was sitting in my boyfriend&#8217;s room in my pajamas, picking out classes when I opened the email informing me that my school had lost its accreditation and might close its doors next year. It was definitely a shock and I immediately felt sad. Just getting to college had been a struggle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2014\/02\/14\/audio-perspectives-education-interrupted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Audio: Perspectives: Education Interrupted<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag","category-kqed_research_ag","category-kqed_youthmedia_ag"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}