The Way it Spozed to Be by Herndon, James

Pages tight and clean. Edges of boards and DJ have light shelfwear. DJ protected with mylar. Retired library book with usual marks and attachments. Pocket removed. 188 pages. HardCover Binding. Year: 1968. ISBN: 0671798464. This is the record of one year in a metropolitan ghetto school, 98 per cent Negro, 99 per cent ""deprived,"" 100 percent chaotic. The record has been written down by the teacher, but its real reporters are the kids themselves, as individuals, and slowly, fumbling, as groups held together by a kind of loyal. It is a story of major failure, with moments of triumph serving chiefly to point up the stupidity and inadequacy of ""the way it spozed to be"" is too many American schools.