[Frank and Liam arrive at his school for the first day only to discover the school deserted]
Holy shit. Place is a ghost town. I think someone's in there.
[Knocks on door]
I'm coming, I'm coming. [Opens door] What's going on? They sent out letters letting folks know the school was closed.
Why?
Not enough kids to keep the place open.
Since when?
Since the new private school opened up. Bourgie parents sending their kids over there now.
A private school in this neighborhood?
A lot of new money moving into the Yards. Bunch of Richie Riches.
Where's my son supposed to go?
Oh, they're bussing kids over to Lincoln Douglas Elementary.
That's a 30-minute bus ride.
Not counting the stops. Probably overcrowded. Forty kids to a class, I hear.
So this private school, where is it?
Took over the Blessed Virgin from the Dioceses.
The B... I went there. The archbishop sold it? What happened to the nuns?
Ah, they shipped them off to assisted living. They were all a couple of hundred years old. Not enough poor kids in the neighborhood to keep the doors open.
...
Whoa. Oh, cool. Chickens.
Go play with them, son.
Excuse me. Hey.
Why aren't you going to public school? Afraid of being exposed to regular kids?
I'm sorry?
Is it because my son is poor? Or black?
Children, let's go inside.
The public-school system is being gutted by you sending your kid to this expensive private school.
Please, sir.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You'll pay taxes to support public schools...
Don't listen to him. Let's go.
But God forbid you or your husband, or your wife, would actually send your child to one.
Sir, this is private property. You need to leave.
This is just the 21st-century version of segregation.
I'm gonna call the police.
I'm leaving. Come on, Liam, let's go.
Can I have a chicken?
No, you can't have a chicken. And do you know why? Because these people don't want you to ever have a chicken. In fact, they've spent thousands of dollars a year so that they can buy up all the chickens in the whole world to guarantee that you will never, ever get a chicken ever in your whole entire life.
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