Freezoned High School

The stories in the collection concern a typical suburban public high school. Typical is the operative word. Tax money poured in by the local community for extraordinary services provided to all school-age children. Money spent everywhere: acclaimed educators hired spectacular facilities built resources like computers and laboratory equipment acquired extra-curricular activities created yet the outcome? Academic failure violence drugs gangs and drop-out rates approaching fifty percent. There is the result! Why? Where has the money gone? The resources gone? The stories provide a glimpse and a few answers. There are portraits of students teachers and school administrators. In these you can figure the reasons for the failures. Often the failure is a combination of forces the kids themselves instability of parents and extended families poor teachers and administrators and a bureaucracy gone wild. To pinpoint any one cause as a reason for the school’s record is difficult at best.