There is one set of texts, not enough to take home. Mrs. Rabbitt photocopies most of her lessons when the copier is working. She slips a student a dime so he can get his magazine bound in the library. Some of her students are still trying. Some of them are not.
Absenteeism is high.
So is tardiness, so much that homeroom isn't held until mid-morning. They will be labeled failures. By extension, so will Mrs. Rabbitt and her school. Sometimes she has these students make a newspaper, dated the day after Julius Casear was assassinated. The work is funny and original.