thesis

"You want to look at who these kids really are, you gotta look at the parenting or lack of it in the city. Drug culture. The economics of these neighborhoods...It's like you're up on the corner of a roof and you're showing some people how a couple shingles fell loose and meanwhile a hurricane wrecked the rest of the damn house."

"You don't need a lot of context to examine what goes on in one classroom."

"Oh really? I think you need a lot of context to seriously examine anything."