Lynda Barry's main point in writing about school and school services is to show the impact they may have on a child’s life. As the author states in the passage in paragraph 22, "I was lucky." I had Mrs. LeSane. I had Mr. Gunderson. I had an abundance of art supplies, "and I had a particular brand of neglect in my home that allowed me to slip away and get to them." She lets it be known that school made her world feel at peace, away from all the negativity at home. School can be an outlet for children from rough households.
The reason Barry discusses the conditions in her home is to show why she feels as if school is the peace to her world. She states that they neglect her at home; she has a busy home. People move in and out of their homes every day because they have nowhere else to go. having to give up her room. hearing her parents argue. She turns to school as the only place she feels needed. Her peers, teachers, and staff let her feel as if her problems at home were gone.
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According to paragraph 15 of the text, "I was with my teacher, and in a while I was going to sit at my desk, with my crayons and pencils and books and classmates all around me, and for the next six hours I was going to enjoy a thoroughly secure, warm, and stable world." It was a world I absolutely relied on. Without it, I don’t know where I would have gone that morning. She includes this because school was the part of her world that made her feel needed and at peace. She points out the fact that she is lucky to go to a school that makes her feel like she matters because some children do not have the availability to experience