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Going for broke in school | Thoughts on Public Education

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Going for broke in school

Poverty becomes a growing brain drain
By Kathryn Baron

It’s hard to know what 17-month-old Terreace makes of his world, but his mother has an idea. In Valerie Klinker’s three-and-a-half minute film, Through My Eyes, she follows Terreace and his 3-year-old brother Terry from morning through evening bath time, describing the signs of poverty in their

Terreace on the playground (Valerie Klinker) Click to enlarge

Terreace on the playground (Valerie Klinker) Click to enlarge

neighborhood as if spoken by her curly-haired toddler.

“Daddy doesn’t like us to take our shoes off,” narrates Klinker as the boys play in the sand and on climbing structures at the park. “He said there are things in the park that little kids shouldn’t touch,” she continues as the camera focuses first on a hole in the