Student talks about clean bathrooms and even a park. Young students will be so honest and it breaks my heart that they have to worry about a clean bathroom and a park rather than their education. Then he receives letters from a group of third graders who say they don't have yards, music, art or even a fun place to play. For younger students a place to play is important because they are busy little bees and need to get out and about in Rome. He then mentions: "During the 1990s, physical conditions in some buildings had become so dangerous that the principal of a Bronx school... was forced to order that the building's windows not be cleaned because the frames were rotten and the glass fell into the street, while in another school the principal had to close the windows for the same reason” (43). safe This is not safe because the building is falling apart and two are around a rotting building, which is not good from a health perspective Kozol raises the question of how do third graders a knowing what is right and what is not right. Approximately in New York it cost about $8,000 for a third grader to go to school in a public school in New York City. Private schools on the other hand were financed by the rich through taxes so there is. era