chapter 12 : A bus ticket and a world away

This chapter of the book explained to the readers, how important education was to black children and families.  Today its completely the opposite with children. If something like this happened in today's time, children would be joyful for the fact that schools are closing. In today's world children already have integrated schools and required up to date equipment's for success. Everyone realizes the importance of education, and shouldn't be denied education because of the their skin color / race. The best part of the chapter was reading the part where it mentioned that this one individual would let kids come into his home, so they can be considered a part of the school district. Its nice to see people working together, when a situation consists of wrong doing.  However, i personally believe many children today can learn about these times that occurred in the past, and apply it towards the situations many of us face today as well.