More textbooks found; taking them home still an issue

by Dale Mezzacappa

There’s a scene in The Wire, the HBO TV series about the travails of urban life in Baltimore, in which the idealistic young teacher, an ex-cop, goes to the school basement to scrounge for materials. With a student in tow, he finds stacks of brand new, untouched, still shrink-wrapped textbooks sitting in piles in the supply closet.

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