{"id":6875,"date":"2024-12-09T14:15:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=6875"},"modified":"2024-12-23T11:39:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T16:39:08","slug":"tayler-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2024\/12\/09\/tayler-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Tayler Simon on lessons learned at the Modjeska School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Modjeska Simkins School<\/a> is gearing up for its next session, which begins March 1 and runs through June. To help celebrate our 10th year, we wanted share what the school has meant to some of the students who completed the program.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Dr. Robert Greene II, lead instructor at the Modjeska Simkins School, awards Tayler Simon her diploma<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Tayler Simon<\/strong>, 2024 graduate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Modjeska School was just what I needed to really begin to deepen my organizing work here in Columbia. From the very first lesson, I knew I was where I needed to be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Greene’s lessons were taught with such knowledge and passion, and the curriculum curated by the SC Progressive Network<\/a> staff was comprehensive. Each week as I sat through the lessons of the SC history I was never taught, I found my mind connecting to a million different things. I wrote more protest poetry and began solidifying the foundation I was building with my bookstore Liberation is Lit<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what I took away the most was the community. I am connected to so many smart and passionate comrades (I refer to them to my friends outside of the School as my organizing comrades) who I continue to organize and learn from to this day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the way I got connected to the Modjeska School was in a true grassroots way \u2014 a friend of a friend of a friend told me about it two days before the deadline to sign up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used to think social media was my best tool to organize for change; getting involved in the Modjeska School taught me that it’s the relationships you build offline (or via Zoom) in safe spaces to learn together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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