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“The class is its own community. By the second month it feels like you’ve gone through some crazy experience together, and now we’re just all friends.” – Aidan Keaveney, Jordan High School sophomore
sticking to it every day. And he followed up – even when I had to finish my novel over the summer he checked in to make sure I was working. That discipline he taught us is the only way I got through writing my thesis at UNC. It is the only way I could be doing what I’m doing now for the Times. I wrote four profiles in the last two days!” Stuart’s classes are not just for future journalists. Lilli Morris is currently in the third year of a chemistry Ph.D. program at Cornell. Despite being more math and science inclined while at Jordan, she begged her way into Stuart’s class her senior year. “People told me that it was a course I had to take before graduating.” Lilli appreciated the chance to improve her writing, but she valued the overall experience even more. “He created an amazing environment where we were learning from one another,” she says. “It was a totally unique class, with sophomores from regular English sitting next to seniors who’d taken two English [Advanced Placement] classes. It was such a diverse group. People you might never have spoken with around campus, but in that classroom, we all had one another’s back.” For Stuart, finding a common ground between students with racial and socioeconomic differences was his primary goal as a teacher. Growing up outside of Charlotte in a “gritty” town divided by a railroad track, he had found that playing football for his public high school provided that kind of rare neutral zone.
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