<p>I could not agree more and coming from a school in the South Bronx I can tell you how it is for the working class. In elementary school we took two subjects, English and math. No science no History. It was a concentration camp were we dreamed of escaping. We usually became so frustrated that anything that agiatated one person would usually result in a fight. I myself have a significant amount of fights in my record. The purpose now is to put the poor and minorities in prison to further feed the private-prison industry. In high school they almost encourage you to fail and drop out and most students, an overwhelming 85%, drop out of school. They set these rigid guidelines of what you must do, past these many science classes. Yet I am not complaining that we have old books, I am complaining that we have no books. In all of the science classes they just give you an 80 page summary on the specific science you are taking. If you don’t get help at home or buy your own book you will definitely have difficulty passing that class.</p>