Upon entrance into junior high (6th-7th grade), a student is pigeon-holed into a category. You're either a jock or a burnout (a rebel). This classification follows the student throughout his/her academic career. What's different about this book is that the author actually interviewed the students. She kept the answers in their own broken, grammatically-incorrect English. Even though I teach in an elementary school, this answered a lot of unanswered questions I had as to why I was immediately classified as a "freak" - because I wouldn't conform to the jock mentality.

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