This is the school that David Brooks attended and talked about how they all grew out of marijuana. Well, of course they did: they had actual futures, and they knew it. Even the heroin users I knew on the Main Line still went to college and entered the upper classes.
In the meantime, I have a friend who teaches in the inner city who asked if I would give her a box of sharpened pencils for her students.
Read the article, and then read the truly, deeply misinformed and hostile comments. I despair for our country.
“For the poor you have always with you, but you do not always have me.” Evangelical Christians love this line from Matthew 26:11. It gives them a reason to be a Republican and to justify their greed. The lesson from the Christ that Matthew is relating to us has very little to do with the poor. It has to do with our preception of the poor. And of the rich.
I’ve had teachers ask for donations of toilette paper. The 1% have hated public education since Benjamin Franklin’s day. It’s so difficult to bully people who can read and reason.