{"id":1218,"date":"2022-02-10T02:24:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T02:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2022-02-10T02:24:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T02:24:24","slug":"mycroschool-meeting-a-vital-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"MYcroSchool Meeting a Vital Need"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MYcroSchool is meeting a vital need in south St. Pete one relationship at a time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>October 25, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY CINDY SWISHER,&nbsp;Neighborhood News Bureau<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PETERSBURG \u2015 Shala Joslin was everything a parent doesn\u2019t want a child to be. That\u2019s how she described herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her bad behavior and attitude was the end of her time at Lakewood High School. That and the fight that left her opponent with stitches across her forehead and under one eye. She was expelled, and the school district threatened to bar her from all public schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite Joslin\u2019s claim, her mother wasn\u2019t ready to give up on her and found a place where her daughter could get a second chance. She enrolled at 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Located at 840 Third Ave. S,\u00a0  Pinellas\u00a0MYcroSchool is the answer for many at-risk students. Because of the relationships built between teachers and students, the small class size (12-15 students), flexible scheduling, and a high-tech, computer-based, self-guided learning experience, kids who couldn\u2019t make it in traditional high school have a second chance to graduate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her anger issues appeared to be under control, as Joslin, now 21, spoke. She was calm and confident as she talked about her life, her son and her plans for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the whole story at the Weekly Challenger &#8211; click here!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MYcroSchool is meeting a vital need in south St. Pete one relationship at a time October 25, 2018 BY CINDY SWISHER,&nbsp;Neighborhood News Bureau PETERSBURG \u2015 Shala Joslin was everything a parent doesn\u2019t want a child to be. That\u2019s how she <a href=\"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/?p=1218\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/student4.jpg?fit=258%2C183&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinellasmycroschool.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}