The ghetto is no playground. While most American children run happily through backyards of green grass, children of the ghetto are confined to dilapidated buildings and iron gates that separate them from the rest of society.
Crime is high, space limited, drugs rampant, and hope dwindling.
The stench of poverty lingers in the air and at a very young age these children learn that they are forgotten. A system created to level the playing field is wrought with daunted teachers, outdated textbooks, overcrowded classrooms, and frustrated children. This free education that all Americans treasure has set them up for failure, only offering the spoils of the world, never enough to compete with children who grow up behind lily white fences. In these schools they are taught not to dream, but to survive. A fourteen yr.