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While urban schools are in big trouble these days, I beg you not to forget the poor suburbs. We are gaining kids and losing money every year, and it makes finding decent books -- and enough books to teach all of our kids -- harder and harder. I teach around a hundred and fifty sophomores and juniors in Washington State. The majority of my students were not raised to be readers, but that does not mean that they don't enjoy reading. They just need a "hook" into reading, every time. A sample ethnic breakdown of one of my classes looks like this: six Caucasian kids, two Asian American kids, seven African Americans, eight Hispanic students, one Native American, and a Samoan. Some of my students come from relatively wealthy families, but most do not, and some live in apartment complexes that are frankly terrifying. I cannot ask my students to buy books for my class.

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While urban schools are in big trouble these days, I beg you not to forget the poor suburbs. We are gaining kids and losing money every year, and it makes finding decent books -- and enough books to teach all of our kids -- harder and harder. I teach around a hundred and fifty sophomores and juniors in Washington State. The majority of my students were not raised to be readers, but that does not mean that they don't enjoy reading. They just need a "hook" into reading, every time. A sample ethnic breakdown of one of my classes looks like this: six Caucasian kids, two Asian American kids, seven African Americans, eight Hispanic students, one Native American, and a Samoan. Some of my students come from relatively wealthy families, but most do not, and some live in apartment complexes that are frankly terrifying. I cannot ask my students to buy books for my class.

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