The students in these classrooms do not have a choice.
Currently, child welfare funds go to provide enrichment in these classrooms.
Parents sense that their kids are getting more of that attention in these classrooms and that it's more intense".
In these classrooms are blackboards, but my friend keeps the chalks in his pocket, as otherwise they would be stolen.
I didn't understand why we were sitting in these classrooms doing stuff that I didn't care about.
"What goes on in these classrooms, that's the story of urban education," said a teacher from Brooklyn.
"I don't think the girls here quite believe it, that she was a pupil here, that she sat in these classrooms and used the facilities we have.
"I have serious concerns about what's going on in some of these classrooms," said R. Kirk Belnap, professor of Arabic at Brigham Young University and the director of a federally financed consortium, the National Middle East Language Resource Center.
In these "classrooms," I have interviewed more than 500 dancers, patrons and community members and worked on 50 erotic dance cases that have come before legislative or judicial bodies.
"They're coming from these classrooms of 30 kids," said Nick Gottlieb, PTA co-president at P.S. 3 in Greenwich Village, where educators run a popular lunchtime program that pairs students with adult volunteers, who read and discuss books with them.
In many of these classrooms, girls outnumber boys, and the United States Agency for International Development is so impressed with the potential of these programs that one third of the schools it supports across Nigeria are integrated Islamic and secular, according to officials at the agency.
