{"id":149575,"date":"2026-03-02T11:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/149575\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:50:09","slug":"an-eighth-grader-who-sits-with-the-kid-alone-in-the-lunchroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/149575\/","title":{"rendered":"An Eighth Grader Who Sits With The Kid Alone in The Lunchroom\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772452208_957_player-standard.jpg\" alt=\"Everlit Audio Player\" style=\"width: 100%;display: block\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    Subscribe today to listen to this content<br \/>\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/subscribe\/\" class=\"everlit-paywall-btn\" style=\"display: inline-block;padding: 6px 14px;border-radius: 50px;text-decoration: none;font-size: 11px;font-weight: 500;white-space: nowrap;flex-shrink: 0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        Get Access<br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jersey City eighth grader Erol Morali is a teacher\u2019s dream student. At least, that\u2019s how two of his teachers at Explore Middle School described him. Erol, 14, works hard in school, always participates in class discussions, and gets good grades, they said. He is also one of his school\u2019s most talented athletes, particularly excelling at volleyball.<\/p>\n<p>Get two free articles a month!<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<\/p>\n<p>An account was already registered with this email. Please check your inbox for an authentication link.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/sarah-komar\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/14f4422658c64f27072be51cab3869dd9b3718c4d3e9b5a15e2e611909884c94.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSarah Komar is a Jersey City Times staff reporter who primarily covers K-12 and higher education. You can reach her at sarah.komar@jcitytimes.com or 347-644-8528 (call or text). Follow her on X @SarahEKomar,&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jcitytimes.com\/author\/sarah-komar\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Sarah Komar\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe today to listen to this content Get Access Jersey City eighth grader Erol Morali is a teacher\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17424,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-149575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-jersey-city-education","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}