Book 'Em: Undereducated, Overincarcerated

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• Posted 12/04/10 by Rebecca
  You can't understand unless you have been to New Haven. I've lived there half my life. I've never encountered an area that has such a dramatic contrast between rich and poor. That "pipeline" route they showed on the map is actually a hill. From the bottom of the hill up to the top is the ghetto and has the highest murder rate in the state, and at the top of the hill there are mansions and private schools. It's really 2 differet cities that just happen to share a zip code. The public schools are like prison training camps-any white child who shares a district with the ghetto will be pulled out and sent to private school (maybe not all, but this was the case with me and every other kid in my neighborhood) The only hope for a lot of these kids is getting into one of the magnet schools-and that is based on a lottery system. I'm not saying kids and parents don't have personal responsibility for where they end up, but my first hand experiences left me with the impression that it was a system set up for failure, and taught me how lucky I am to not have been born into different circumstances.
• Posted 05/08/10 by Tyler520
  Until society stops admiring criminal culture, we shouldn't expect anything less - this film simply underscores the "blame everyone else" mentality that truly buries everyone. There is a reason the film is only three minutes long - it really doesn't have much to say