enews Graduation Issue | June 14, 2013 - Ferndale Public Schools

2013
DLC Graduates
Melvin K. Allen Jr.
Michael M. Braxton
Brittinee E. Brown
Colin J. Coles
Corsica J. Collins
Durail A. Colvin Jr.
Andre E. Dallas II
Bryant K. Davis
Candace S. Denson
Gregory M. Due
Alyssa M. English
Alayna M. Foster
Nathaniel D. Fuller Jr.
Mariyah D. Grayson
Samuel N. Hobdy Jr.
Andre Houston Jr.
Dynasty B. Hudgins
Janel T. Hunt
Famta T. Janneh
Deidra Johnson
Jakyya A. Johnson
Ronnie Johnson Jr.
Vincent D. Johnson Jr.
William Jones
Marcus L. Lloyd
Joshua A. Montgomery
Kiara C. Moss
Ovionne S. Naugles
Timothy Ross Jr.
Danielle M. Simon
Damon L. Smiley
Henry D. Smith
Jonay S. Smith
ReNesha Smoot-Grafton
Dajia S. Stoudemire-Bell
Rojal J. Thomason
Jessica R. Walker
Imani S. Washington
Katesa N. Washington
Class Inspiration
Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled
and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is
undoubtedly the most fundamental.... The freedom
to learn... has been bought by bitter sacrifice. And
whatever we may think of the curtailment of other
civil rights, we should fight to the last ditch to keep
open the right to learn, the right to have examined
in our schools not only what we believe, but what
we do not believe; not only what our leaders say,
but what the leaders of other groups and nations,
and the leaders of other centuries have said. We
must insist upon this to give our children the fairness
of a start which will equip them with such an
array of facts and such an attitude toward truth that
they can have a real chance to judge what the world
is and what its greater minds have thought it might
be.
—W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Freedom to Learn”
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