Taken in a lot of different directions. I didnt even get into this whole separate issue of the population not just in the School Population around here but in california and the southwest that would be a great book for someone else to write. I dont see why there cant be other reports like mine that is subjective in which someone is writing their own impression of life and i do a lot of writing about the books themselves. Its a kind of introduction and excitement of reading them aga again. That is one book i dont know why there cant be black reporters going into black schools were white schools if that is the power what is it, how does it work and how does it benefit students, i would love to read that book. I may wonder if you have any plans to followup with the students you meant and whether you think there is any risk of having an extraordinary teacher for one year as a temporary phenomena and years later the interest might fade away if it isnt reinforced. I dont know about you but i had have a couple extraordinary teachers and survived. Youre trying to take him strength you get from the teachers to Carry Forward even when its not so good. There were great ones at the same time. There will always be that variability. For following up, i stayed in touch with some of the kids who are now getting their college stuff together. Actually, they were getting it to schools. One of the things is the whole ethos of the places to get everyone into college and the fact that there is no College Office. There isnt a resource from new haven to pay for the College Office. Office. Itoffice. Sooffice. So, be of no help whatsoever. The parents cannot help them get through the maze of applications and loan applications and the whole financial stuff. Yale does pay tuition for those that graduate and go to a local level but what they dont do and what i think would be just as valuable is to staff the College Office schools and keep someone there maybe four days a week and help kids get through this. But yes i keep up with some of the kids, not all of them. One of the things that has been pushed a lot is the idea of nonfiction and the role that it plays in the english classroom. I was wondering the teachers you covered. It was all fiction and so is Mary Whittemore and the book youre going like this because god knows how much of it he made up. Its suspiciously detailed about what people were thinking years before he wrote it. The common core is pushing kids away from fiction towards nonfiction. Who ever had twhoever had to ren the job i said no one except book reviewers. One of those people who think its the way that you know about your self and you are enlarged and overwhelmed and when you are home, the process goes inward and outward if you compare yourself to the characters you are reading about. Theres a complex interaction which brings you back to your self also and how you act in certain ways. So i think it is essential kids read because they can read other people and develop all those qualities of empathy and perceptiveness and understanding about how other societies work and how others work that we dont get from the media necessarily. So im against shifting. The nonfiction that they are reading me be very good. [inaudible] that is a hairraising book that i dont agree with a lot of this is [inaudible] the book shes reading with her 11th graders right now. But yes, because he writes with metaphorical power and returns to certain scenes and figures over again. I have an accidental experience with my son who was terrible in high school and ended up going off with friends and drinking a lot and ended up in a Mental Institution in australia. I said just send him home. When he got home, he was on medication and he was a wreck. Because i love literature, i said read toomey out loud. So we started at the station because it is factual and beautifully written and he doesnt have to understand, just read a toomey out loud and then we can talk. So he read the whole book and said i cant do this. Its too much i cant do it. He kept doing it and i said it doesnt matter whether we understand. We will talk. Then the second thing the breathless notes from the underground and he started talking about himself. We developed the incredible relationship then he wrote moby dick and i am trying to think now he couldnt stop you just kept reading out loud. We talked about everything and before i knew it he brought the comrade. Was he not a big time reader prior to this . He failed things in high school. He was just awful. It developed and then he ended up teaching kids at the city college to read and write to coach them. Then he started writing himself and now he writes a lot. I think its because the characters are so egotistical that he gave me strength. The first one well, anyway the well let it go at that. But its great if you are feeling low if you are a man. I dont know if it would help women. His Upper West Side book is angry and funny all at once. He lived around here a long time ago in the 50s. Yes, anybody else . Thank you all very much for coming. Ladies and gentlemen, a round of applause. [applause] do you want to tell them again that this is part of