More money is put into prison construction than into schools. We'll certainly need more prisons if our students won't read books. And if our legislators don't send our students books to read, they themselves should be imprisoned. Hopefully your editorial will receive more illuminating response, and experiences of specific literature with which to inspire your students. Perhaps you can use mine to exemplify the consequence of failure and point out how easy it is to slide into sub-moronic idiocy.
Language is the crux of communication.
Endeavor to persevere. I salute you. My class was coming alive, and I was being transformed by this experience, by these voices. I began to sit with them more, asking more and telling less, and all the while feeling myself filling up with the same joy and excitement I had witnessed in Flossie Lewis when I watched her teach. I think we were learning how to learn and giving each other permission to do so in that class.