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some students in Bed-Stuy are gearing up for success

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with a special elective that teaches them how to fix

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and earn a bicycle using Brooklyn is only toys

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Nick shows of what school at school at

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Brooklyn Pathways to graduation

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Chili's in high school hallways

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would usually lend you in the principal's office but

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Dion plus has this privilege

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when you feel strong like mine

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with

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his

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own hands reduce them how to fix them

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A to Z from all the hubs brake

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adjustment derailleur fixing anything

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that needed to be done they overhauled

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a bike these students at Brooklyn Pathways to graduation

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putting in some real elbow grease off

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to school at biking boot camp and he

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the really cool pod they get to keep the finished

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product sometimes

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I'll go to work and

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I was happy

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about it because I was laid off so I made the right choice

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I made it Spike the other bike program a collaboration

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with the nonprofit recycle-a-bike

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and the city's Department of Transportation and

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students get that pic from dozens of donated

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bikes from hybrids to Road Bikes mountain bikes

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but some of the most important lesson

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in this classroom don't come in a toolbox if

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you choose them problem-solving skills it

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also keeps them engaged

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in school English language we

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use English so then they're learning

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are two bikes are learning tools in English

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and that's what's cool at school