His grades at public schools in Manhattan's Upper West Side were mostly Bs, but arithmetic baffled him.
在曼哈顿上西区的公共学校里，他的成绩大多都是B，好在算术还不赖。
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I experienced precious little of such thinking in 30 years of teaching in the public junior high schools of Manhattan's ultra-progressive Upper West Side.
在曼哈顿超左的上西城，其公立初中30年的教学生涯让我有了这样一些重要的思考。
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The children of the wealthy and the upper middle class are prepared for their futures in private schools or first-rate public systems in wealthy suburbs.