Lucy Wortham James Elementary School

Nobody is fooling themselves or anybody else about this school. The classes are chaotic and students learn nothing but complete work on a grade level that is far below what their work should be, just so that students complete something and can be passed from one grade to the next. The focus here is completely on keeping the students from hurting other people, not on education at all. But everybody understands that and is basically ok with that, because the kids here are so at-risk for violence, sex, sex, and other crimes that the priority for parents, staff, administrators, and state workers who place kids here is just to get them locked up where they can be controlled.