relates to kozol

I have two story that i felt relate to Kozol's article about poor getting poorer and rich get richer. The first one was just the other day i heard a song that basically says what Kozol is saying. The song is called ABCs by K'naan and the chorus lyrics go like this

"They don't teach us the ABCs
We play on the hard concrete
All we got is life on the streets
All we got is life on the streets"

This song points out Kozol's argument that we need to do something or the vicious cycle will continue.

The other story was on my last day going to tutoring when i got to the school i found a homeless looking man passed out drunk on the school front steps and i had to step over him to get into the building. This just pointed out how poor the area was i was tutoring in. I felt like it could be dangerous because the students were playing outside only a couple of feet from the passed out man. A teacher told me that that was the second time the man passed out on the steps in the last two weeks. This was surprising to me because i come from an area that is probably more middle class and never saw something like that before.