The Way it Spozed to be'The Way It Spozed to Be' deals incisively with what is still the root problem of ghetto schools: their appalling failure to reach the kids, their obsession with rote learning and imposed discipline, which only drives them further into apathy and rebellion. . . This book exposes the conflict between image and reality, between the way things 'spozed to be' and the way they are. |
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