I’m English, but when I was twelve I lived in North Carolina and went to an inner-city school a bit like that one in The Wire. I only really have two memories of that time. One, of police arresting one of my classmates in the middle of Social Studies, (I never saw him again), and two: Technology lessons that consisted of us sitting two to a computer, playing the original Sim City; presumably to stop us fighting each other for one hour a day. Read more »