{"id":56031,"date":"2025-10-24T10:54:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/a-storied-los-angeles-high-school-band-had-fallen-on-hard-times-then-along-came-mr-j\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:54:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:54:54","slug":"a-storied-los-angeles-high-school-band-had-fallen-on-hard-times-then-along-came-mr-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/a-storied-los-angeles-high-school-band-had-fallen-on-hard-times-then-along-came-mr-j\/","title":{"rendered":"A storied Los Angeles high school band had fallen on hard times. Then along came Mr J"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inglewood\u2019s program had been chain-sawed by financial challenges and the pandemic, but Joseph Jauregui built it back up \u2013 and his students are winning scholarships<\/p>\n<p>Joan Rosas says educators as early as kindergarten flat-out told him he wasn\u2019t capable. \u201cI got horrible grades,\u201d he said. \u201cI could barely read until eighth grade when I figured out how to teach myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Inglewood high school sophomore says he received little meaningful support for his learning challenges and, under the circumstances, grew to dislike school. Eventually, he started acting out, trying things like smoking.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/24\/inglewood-marching-band-los-angeles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inglewood\u2019s program had been chain-sawed by financial challenges and the pandemic, but Joseph Jauregui built it back up \u2013 and his students are winning scholarships Joan Rosas says educators as early as kindergarten flat-out told him he wasn\u2019t capable. \u201cI got horrible grades,\u201d he said. \u201cI could barely read until eighth grade when I figured &#8230; <a title=\"A storied Los Angeles high school band had fallen on hard times. Then along came Mr J\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/a-storied-los-angeles-high-school-band-had-fallen-on-hard-times-then-along-came-mr-j\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A storied Los Angeles high school band had fallen on hard times. Then along came Mr J\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}