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Theft from motor vehicles is classified as larceny, which O’Connor said is the most common type of crime committed in the MBTA system...
...favorite lines from Doughboy in the 1991 blockbuster movie, “Boyz n the Hood.” For everyone reading this who “don’t know” what’s going on in the inner city school system, what follows is a brief glimpse of the situation based on visits to 8,500 middle school children in five major American cities. The experiences related here demonstrate that no matter how bad you believe the conditions are in inner-city schools…they are far worse...
These are my reflections, generated through individual observation and prolonged discussions with school administration officials both on and off the record. Principals and teachers expressed their desperation, and implored me to tell the world what was going on in the inner-city school system. This is my attempt...
...most heartbreaking element of this situation is that many of the kids who attend these schools are fiercely intelligent, but the school system is slowly eating them alive, and every adult at the schools we visited, including myself, knew it. I use the expression “eating them alive” because that is the best way I know how to describe the situation. The crushing feeling is analogous to how it must feel for a creature to be eaten alive by a python. What makes the prospect so sickening is that the prey is still alive and conscious...
This is comparable to what is happening in America’s inner-city school system, and is a reality for many of the children who attend such schools. The teachers, and many students, realize that the educational system is failing them, and that they are ill prepared to face the real world beyond graduation. As one principal remarked, “Where the schools fail, the streets will take over,” and all involved parties can only look on with a sense of helplessness, caught in a diabolical waiting game as the schools and the streets...