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Ljuba Marsh & Bob Brick founded the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts public charter high school, or PVPA for short, which Michael attended in the late 90s/early aughts. In this conversation, they reminisce about Michael as a teenager, his intellect, wit, and emphasis on social justice. We also get Ljuba's thoughts on what's gone wrong with charter schools in America today.

Bob and Ljuba talk about Michael's poetry, attached is an image of one of his poems.

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Music "The Michael Brooks Song" https://youtu.be/Dnao5lTlFAA

Editing by Danny Celentano

Graphic Design by Chris Tucci

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I bet if you adapted that script as a semi-farcical sitcom or movie it might work really well. You'd have to maybe include another normal school (maybe by showing the efforts to influence public schools as they fail because of property tax funding) or figure out how to make the unique features of the school be contrasted with what people are used to. That school sounds like a trip. And those larping jocks sound way too interesting not to be portrayed on video! I think it could speak to the alienation a lot of people feel from their high school/middle school experience by offering a utopian alternative. Kind of like the song Rock Candy Mountain of the high school drama genre. I would watch it anyway.

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I'm so glad you picked up on how odd our school was! It is a project that one day my writing partner and I will certainly return to. I sent him your comment. - Lisha