D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) alumnus London Jones recently graduated from Lafayette College with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and sociology. He achieved this feat just two days after news dropped of DCPS Chancellor Dr. Lewis D. Ferebee’s transition to the private sector.
Though Jones, a POSSE scholar and Anacostia High School’s Class of 2022 valedictorian, never met Ferebee, and didn’t have much to say about him, he lamented a high school experience he said didn’t prepare him for a rigorous academic environment.
“I didn’t know how to format my first paper,” Jones told The Informer. “Of course, our professors gave us guidelines, saying ‘Use this font,’ but didn’t even know how to do that for real. And then, I didn’t even know what a primary source or secondary source was.”…