"Queen says making learning fun is key for kids who often seem burdened with adult problems — there wasn't enough food to go round at breakfast, they couldn't sleep well in overcrowded homes or they have to serve as translators for Spanish-speaking parents in difficult circumstances.

When they leave those troubles at home, they arrive at a school that's more fortress than learning sanctuary.

The campus is surrounded by a steel-bar fence and padlocked gate. Teachers conduct uniform checks to make sure students are not wearing local gang colors of red or blue. "I try to get them to leave their problems at the door," Queen says."

Честно говоря, не хочется иронизировать по поводу этого учителя.