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by door3 3044 days ago
Maybe it has something to do with the systematic impoverishment of black communities and the destruction of black families through mass incarceration, and "innovative teaching" will do little to fix these inequalities, which require much deeper and more structural policy change.

On a related note, Washington D.C. specifically has a massive lead pipe problem which has been ignored for decades.

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A lot starts with criminal justice reform and getting rid of the "War on Drugs". You can't help but to notice that once drugs started affecting rural and suburban American, that it became all about "treatment" and less about locking people up.