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Bissinger is critical of other schools, Like Carter High in Dallas, who violate and circumvent the educational system in order to produce a winning football team. This overall apathy towards education is made worse by the tacit acceptance of academic mediocrity by everyone from parents right up to the school board. Most stakeholders in the school system seemed oblivious to exactly what these kids do after high school. Many teachers shrug their shoulders in futility. Perhaps this is the curse of Odessa: generations of unskilled kids taking their chances in the boom-and-bust economy of the oil fields. Winning football games take precedent over everything including the future of these kids.