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If you go to the port clinton high school now and look at parking lot, next to each other are bmw convertibles driven there by kids whose dads live in the mansions, and junkers in which the kids live because they re homeless. that kind of unbelievable contrast between rich kids and poor kids in new, and it s not only new in port clinton. it s new, really, nationwide. these larger social trends we re familiar with, the growing gap between rich people and poor people, the growing segregation of american people along class lines, those come down and affect the lives and opportunities and the resources available to kids. and the trajectory for disadvantaged kids now is so bad. they start out at this disadvantage, and then every time they stumble, that disadvantage deepens. that s exactly right. in the book, we have a whole series of what we call scissors graphs, graphs that look like this in which things are getting better for kids coming from ....

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