you really have to wonder what kind of people would look at a child in the third grade that can't read, knowing that that problem will put them on a trajectory towards prisons, and start building prisons rather than come up with some literacy programs to get them back on another trajectory.
Scott criticizes prioritizing prisons over literacy programs for struggling children.
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