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Studying for the LSAT's in the fall. Emily Lazar found she "got to the point where I thought my eyes could roll back in my head and I'd still be able to fill in the right little boxes." That reaction was part of a growing feeling that she spent her time "Supplying the appropriate responses to everything:" she felt a need to plan something to "get me out of this upper-middle-class intellectual rut I've been traveling in for 21 years...
...lucky if anyone even notices I'm there. Lazar says now, quick to point out that the work is not "an ego thing where you think you can make the big difference." Rather, it's "hand-aid work"--casing surface problems and encouraging individual students...
Alabama schools are desperately underfunded because Alabama has the lowest property tax in the country and "would have to increase it by 66 per cent even to tie for 49th," Lazar says...
...long run. Lazar hopes to attack some of these deeper problems: besides practical work--improving curriculum, trying to farm out university graduates to teach instead of local people, arranging school-to-school transfers for students--Lazar will spend about a year writing a paper on the school system. to be used in political lobbying for more funding...
Such political action. Lazar says, is the only way to effect any lasting change in the schools where she will work. She contemplates settling permanently in the South, perhaps after obtaining a law degree, and continuing to apply political pressure...