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Hard Lessons 

Students without textbooks. Crumbling facilities. Rats. Spending time at Balboa High School can be a real education.

Wednesday, Oct 11 2000
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Brady, Alondra's fifth-period teacher, says he heartily supports the ACLU lawsuit, but for someone on the front line of public education, his main concern is to keep teaching, despite the conditions.

"Clearly, if we have bathrooms that don't work and are foul, we are not serving our students," Brady says. "And if we have holes in our floor and chalkboards and shades that don't go up and down, and if I don't have the level of cleanliness that I'd like, that'll affect the way I teach. But there are a lot of really good people here trying to make do with it. Patricia Gray doesn't get the money to work with. And she can't gripe about it, and she won't. Because what can she do? It's like fighting a war without enough guns."

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