The student talks about clean bathrooms and even a park. Young students will be so honest and it breaks my heart to have to worry about a clean bathroom and playpen during their education. He then receives letters from a group of third graders saying they don't have gardens, music, art, or even a fun place to play. For younger students, a place to play is important because they are busy little bees and need to get outside and play. He then mentions: "By the 1990s, physical conditions in some buildings had become so dangerous that a principal at a Bronx school...was forced to order that the building's windows not be cleaned because the frames were rotten and the windows were falling into the street. , while in another school, the principal had to close the windows for the same reason” (43). On the one hand, this is not healthy for students. An important thing in children's learning is having a safe environment. It's not safe because, on the one hand, the building is collapsing and, on the other hand, they are around a rotten building, which is not looking good from a health. Kozol raises the question of how third graders know what is right and what is not. In New York City, it costs about $8,000 for a third grader to attend school in a New York City public school. Private schools, on the other hand, were financed by the rich through taxes.