EVERYONE knows that conditions in urban public schools are bad. In fact, they’re much worse than you think. Most people do not believe me when I tell them that I attended a school. assembly where a rior was started by the teachers. Most people do not believe me when I tell them that the schools refuse to allow students to use their books as a steady aid before exams. I say that conceived drug dealers are employed as public-school teachers—while serving time in prison.
To sure to group the problem, suppose yourself a visitor at one of the worse urban public schools, a school like Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyin. Probably the line thing you will see in the school is brawling. Brutal fighting and cruelty towards smaller students is a normal part of halfway activity in such schools. You see one boy scurrying from classroom to classroom dipping the lights off and on. Another walks into an empty classroom and undisguisedly tries to jimmy open the other students’ lockers.
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