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Economic and Social Inequality SUMMER 2023
But we were put into a magnet program. So therefore, we didn't go to
school, you know, in our neighborhoods. So, I was bussed to a magnet
program from the seventh grade through the twelfth grade. The same
teachers that we started with, when I got to the twelfth grade and also
in college, some of those same teachers who started that program, you
know, migrated along with the program and helped it to excel.
So, they have a school called the La Guardia School of Arts in New
York; we had the New World School of Arts, equivalent to that in Mi-
ami. I was one of the first graduating classes from that school. They
eventually had a program through the University of Florida, where they
would have a graduate program. And so, I was also a graduate from that
program. So, I graduated from the University of Florida.
But I say that to say: I think that just being picked out of that sixth-
grade class, you know, gave me access to that program, access to those
professors and teachers. When I went back to go to school, to go back
to college -I think I was about thirty years old. And when I went back
to the school again, it was through the University of Florida when
I went in there, the lady said, "You know, Barbara you've been out of
school for a while, you don't have a portfolio. Go ahead and pay for your
one semester and then bring your portfolio back and then we'll look at
what you have and then we'll see what we can do to help you with some
money."
So, I did that. I did my semester. I paid for my own classes, came back
and she looked at what I presented, and she says, "Okay, we're gonna
give you a partial scholarship." And I looked at that partial scholarship
and I said, "I don't have any money. I've moved out of my house, moved
in with my mother; I have no money." She took that paper, tore it up,
gave me a full scholarship to go to the University of Florida.
And so throughout, I've always looked at little things like that and just
said, you know, "Well, you know that opportunity that I had: had so
many other people had that same opportunity, maybe their things would
be differently."75
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