ABSTRACT
This chapter creates similar and opposite argument about Allwin; eventually, everyone got organized to justify the identification of the children as successes through routine, but not overwhelming or consequential, failure. The most powerful of American metaphors for education makes it a race on a field so perfectly level that only individual merit determines the result. Allwin Junior High School is known to be part of an "excellent" school system. One might expect all to be easy in the best of all American world. At Allwin, the students were treated to an equally complete immersion in the success and failure attribution games America offered them. These were the same cultural games the students of West Side were obliged to play. At Allwin, every day, the students were faced with the reverse possibility: Everyone organized their world to reveal how they would fail if they let down their guard for a minute.
