Jonathan Kozol Was Right Lyrics
i read a book the other day about public schools in our nationan indictment of our prevailing caste systemit semes so many things i've taken for granted others cant access at alli ditched computer class while others had no booksi learned to hate my halls, there's holes in walls in schools right in my townserving the rich, keeping the lower classes downwhat do i mean by this statement?it seems only too clear with your english class in a bathroomhow well do you think you'd fare?i read of schools so overcrowded no room could be savednot auditoriums, cafeterias or closet space.a school's income is determined by property taxand how much money can you get from poor mexican and black families trapped in slumspoor kids need the most attention but since they're untaxable they get noneand because the system sucks when the kids grow upthey'll have to send their kids back into the system that fucked themit's a cycle that for years has not been brokenthere's a name for this it's social reproductionand we maintain this caste system by letting them enforce itwe're all flowers growing in a garbage can"the teachers tell their kids but how can a flower grow when the sunlight's blocked by the lid?disribute property tax more fairly at least that's a startcuz little flowers can't grow in the darkness they need everything we've got.
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