First day of school in Kill-a-delphia
Kids on their way to the Washington Elementary School at 44th and Aspen Sts. in West Philadelphia passed this boarded up block on June Street near Brown on their first day of school. The spray painted grafitti message is recent, just in time for the new school year. These three hateful syllables may be the first words some of the younger kids from the neighborhood learn to read.
Imagine.
The wonder of it, when you see what these children must confront everyday, is not that so many of them fail in school. The wonder is that any of them ever succeed.
No child left behind? These kids already have to run for miles just to reach the starting line. And then for every step forward they take in class, there's a "don't snitch" bully to trip them on the way home, followed closely by a cop with supicious eyes who watches and waits. Patiently. Because he knows ever child left behind gets caught sooner or later. If not tomorrow, then next year.
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Clark
Posted by: clark deleon | September 14, 2006 03:08 AM