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A Bushwick Public School Teacher Says There’s More to the Neighborhood than its Bar Scene

Zalykha María Mokim has been teaching for seven years, and she knows the job involves a lot more than what we see on TV.

A Bushwick Public School Teacher Says There’s More to the Neighborhood than its Bar Scene

A Bushwick Public School Teacher Says There’s More to the Neighborhood than its Bar Scene

Zalykha María Mokim has been teaching for seven years, and she knows the job involves a lot more than what we see on TV.

A Bushwick Public School Teacher Says There’s More to the Neighborhood than its Bar Scene

Zalykha María Mokim

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Do you remember that episode of “Girls” where Lena Dunham becomes a teacher? Dunham walks into a pretty well-organized school building, decides she wants to become a teacher, gets a roster of less than twenty students, does some sort of lesson in front of a bunch of teenagers that only involves talking at them and also starts dating a chiseled model type co-worker who teaches at her school.

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