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USING WHAT YOU KNOW

You are the principal of a middle school in a poor urban neighborhood. Your classrooms lack basic supplies, your roof often leaks, and an ominous odor often arises from your school’s water system. You have appealed many times to the school district for additional funds to deal with all these problems, but these funds have not been provided. What, if anything, do you do next?

WHAT YOU CAN DO

To help deal with the education problems discussed in this chapter, you may wish to do any of the following:

1. 
   Volunteer to tutor students at a local school or after-school program.
   
2. 
   If your college or university has low numbers of low-income students, establish a student group to encourage your school to admit more such students.
   
3. 
   Start or join a group on your campus to call attention to the need for responsible alcohol use, as drinking is associated with much campus violence.