It was fashioned by carefully drawn catchment areas, planning policies and the capacity of the better off to move out. In other words, the sort of segregated schools we are surreptitiously fashioning here, which many who are reading this are secretly delighted exist, for these schools guarantee their kids don't have to sit alongside those trapped within them.
This is a remarkable document, conveying the experiences of students and teachers as they struggle to survive in a dreadful environment. However, it is not just descriptive: it brings young people's lives to the fore and humanises them. You learn of their talents as much as their deprivation, providing an insight into a better future and better alternatives. Kozol is not satisfied with merely describing the plight of the excluded: he yearns for change. Consequently, he ruthlessly depicts routine racism and exposes the hypocrisy of the politicians and voters who manufacture such schools. The articles on which this book is based cost Kozol his job.
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