SOC 201 Chapter 13: Chapter 13.9
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It would be great if we had water, says mcmillan. Teachers are running out of chalk and paper, and their paychecks are arriving two weeks late. The city warns its teachers to expect a cut of half their pay until the fiscal crisis has been eased. The situation in suburban schools tends to be quite different. Typical was one school where kozol found, for one thing, that members of the faculty were not so worried about chalk and paper: According to the principal, the school has 96 computers for 546 children. The typical student, he says, studies a foreign language for four or five years, beginning in the junior high school, and for a second language (latin is available) for two years. Of 140 seniors, 92 are now enrolled in ap [advanced college placement] classes.
