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Mellish school is in the slums1 of Brooklyn for pupils between twelve and fifteen years of age. There are about 1500 pupils there, and ninety teachers.
It’s a problem school, perhaps one of the most difficult schools in America.
The white teachers can’t walk to the school because somebody may attack them. They all drive to school, and their cars have special locks. There’s always a policeman at the door of the school. Pupils must have a written permission from the teacher if they want to go to the toilet. Only one child can go into the toilet room at a time2, and he can’t stay there long. There is a guard outside the toilet.
The children who live in that district3 go to that school. They are all black children. But why do white teachers work there?
“It’s very hard of course,” says Jane Flinch, a forty-five-year-old teacher. “Most children have problems at home. Some of them sleep at the lessons because they had to work at night or didn’t have breakfast or even a meal for a day or two”.
It’s the love of the job that keeps the teachers in that school. They teach and do social work. They feel that they are doing something good for the children who need help.
There is very little money for teaching in that school. There is very little money for books and paper every year. There is no money to buy food for the children.
The principal4 of the school has been there for many years. A lot of his happy optimism has gone. “Look around you,” he says and points out of the window at the high wall round the school. “It’s not a very bright sight: buildings have holes instead of the windows, groups of people are sitting on the steps of the houses. They have nowhere to go, because they have no work”.

1slums [sl mz] трущобы; 2at a time в одно и то же время; 3district [distriкt] район; 4principal [prinsipl] директор школы в Америке.