A kid came up to him in the hall, a smallish kid in a green army jacket. The kid said something about not liking cedric’s face and how he saw him get his $100 reward check and it made him sick- and there was a bulge in the army jacket’s pocket. The heavy green fabric was tented into a triangle pointing out from the kid’s hip. Cedric looked down and could see the back of a rat-gray steel handle. Cedric can’t remember much else- just that he couldn’t speak, that he ran through a cluster of kids into the bathroom, terrified, and decided not to tell Mr. Washington or anyone about it, afraid that there’d be a retaliation if he squealed.” (Suskind,22)
Later in the book he was found in a classroom during award assembly. In my opinion a student would be scared to display high perform in classes with the fear of being in danger. This prevents full display of academic abilities. If crime was more untolerated , the circumstances would differ. If the school kicked out the teens starting the trouble and inflicting fear in the building, students wouldn’t be as scared to achieve and be more likely to be okay with being called out during assembly. It would be more recognition instead of putting them in danger. On page 267 the book