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By carving up our cities into attendance zones, we are perpetuating the economic and racial divisions that marked one of the darkest eras of our nation’s past.

— Tim DeRoche A Fine Line (2020)

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Huck undergoes a change in Twain’s original in terms of how he sees the slave Jim, and Huck undergoes a similar change in this book.

The original Huck Finn is not about slavery; it’s not about race. This is a story about an abused kid looking for a safe haven.

The core belief driving our work is so simple that it might sound radical. Even the best and most coveted public schools should be open and accessible to all families.

I started thinking of Huck Finn as a protoypical American myth.

It was an incredibly fun experience to try an inhabit that voice and try to get into Huck’s head and see Los Angeles from the point-of-view of this naive kid from backwoods Missouri.

The Ballad of Huck and Miguel': Tim DeRoche and Daniel Gonzalez reimagine a classic (2018)

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