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There Are No Children Here

the Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
Sep 17, 2019jpena78213 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I have been re-reading "There Are No Children Here" lately. I once read the book in college. I became inspired to read the book again after talking to a lady who is from Chicago. She was telling me how about the gangs are. I was able to watch the move itself again. I have to admit that when I looking back now and re-reading the book is alot different now than when I read it in your class. The teacher salaries back in 1987 were only about $17,000 back then;. I don't think I could understand the scope or scale of the problems with the housing, the schools, nor the gangs back then like I can now. Even though the buildings themselves have been demolished, the same basic problems still seem to remain in Chicago housing. Yet, it seems that police racial profiling still seems to be a problem. But it just seems that alot of times innocent people are at the wrong places at the wrong times. As for the two main characters in the book, despite intervention from Kotlotwitz and school sadly Pharoah and Lafayette they were both arrested and had been sent to prison for drugs. (Lafayette got arrested for sexual assault of a minor.). The mother herself, LaJoe, supposedly had a nervous breakdown after the book was released. Check this pre-recorded Podcast out. It is a bit dated but a valuable resource. Alex Kotlowtiz Discusses His Book There Are No Children Here Podcast https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/alex-kotlowitz-discusses-his-book-there-are-no-children-here?t=NaN%2CNaN&a=%2C