I first heard about Schwartz’s project when news reports first came out with the heart breaking images of what her students’ had written. It inspired me to learn more about my college’s local school system, and to write about it for my final journalism project at WCU. You can read it here, if you want to. The results that I found in Jackson County, North Carolina were similar to what Schwartz found in Colorado, so when I saw this as an ARC on Netgalley, I knew that I had to read it.

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