October 17, 2009

The $450.00 purse

One hundred-and-twenty-five "At Risk" seventeen to twenty-four year old, paid $8.15 an hour to attend high school with money from the Stimulus package. A report from the trenches."Four-hundred and fifty dollars!" Shaqueenda purred...

October 10, 2009

Walk Fast

"Jenkins, gimme a bus pass," Benny ordered. I had just come up the hall from the Principal's office having dealt with another entitled student who felt that proper school decorum was self-assigned. "You can't suspend me. I'll show you,...