“Boy on Fire” quotes from Law & Order

:[examining Ramirez's body] School ID to Sunrise Academy. It's a few blocks that way. One of those charter schools.

Trying to help kids in the lousy neighborhoods. Give them a better education to break the cycle of violence.

Looks like they've got a little ways to go.

Yes, I've heard about the murder. Everyone's talking about it.

Anyone talking about who did it?

Most of these kids worship at the Church of Don't Snitch.

Charter schools, magnet schools, they take all our best students, and then we're blamed for having the worst. Kids from poverty, from broken families, a hundred years of neglect and we have to get them ready for college with just a few hours a day. Some charter school that gets 20 million dollars from Bill Gates and they get a few students into Dartmouth, it makes front page news. You want to know what the real success stories are? When a student from Aaron Burr who couldn't even read in the ninth grade manages to graduate and get a job in an auto-parts store instead of becoming a drug dealer. That's a success story, our success story. But no one cares. No one wants to hear about it.

McCoy

[after learning about Principal Woodside's arrest]Grand larceny? What did she steal?

Cutter

Well, how about a decent education for her students? Their integrity, their potential?

McCoy

I don't think there's a law against stealing potential.