I found many new pieces of information in this book shocking. These are my top 3:
#3 - More money goes to prisons than to schools (232). The scary thing about this is that there are probably more adults in jail than there are children in schools. This is a backwards approach to me. If more money goes to schools, then kids would have the knowledge and skills to stay out of jail and then less money would have to be pumped into the prison system.
#2 -"69% of US public school students in the fifth through eighth grade are taught mathematics by a teacher without a degree or certificate in mathematics" (232). How is this possible or legal? I wouldn't think that a school would hire an unqualified person, but apparently I am wrong.
#1 - "75% of young Americans, between the ages of 17 and 24, are unable to enlist in the military today because they have failed to graduate high school, have a criminal record, or are physically unfit" (221). This quote covers three major issues and I don't know which one is more disturbing: our education system, our crime rate, or our overall health situation.
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