This article, published in City Journal, is an account of one teacher’s experience in a very well-funded urban school, viz:
“At my school, we pay five teachers to tutor kids after school and on Saturdays. They sit in classrooms waiting for kids who never show up. We don’t want for books—or for any of the cutting-edge gizmos that non-Title I schools can’t afford: computerized whiteboards, Elmo projectors, the works.”
The problem? A soul-wrecking list of the symptoms of a failed and broken society which, in failing to discuss and attack the real issues, fails the most vulnerable in the worst way.
Read it. Then weep.
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