the stench of failure stops burning your nose and lungs after a few years of teaching in the phladelphia school system
you barely notice that desparate pugency somewhere around your third or fourth year
all that wasted effort
all those fresh college graduates who want to help
the system is designed to crush their idealism
just as it crushes kids whose destiny is to be the bottom decile of the bell shaped curve, come test time, so that the taxpayers parents wont feel ripped off by their property tax bills with a comma in them