I found Shang’s discussion of the tangle of complexities between education and incarceration very interesting and illuminating. I agree with Robeson in opposing the pipeline framework or “direct trajectory” (102) between the two, and was very engaged with Shang’s elaboration on the difficulties of defining their relationship. I thought that using Robeson as a field site, and specifically Sofia’s classroom, to show current carceral progressivism and other practices working to disrupt the impact of pervasive educational inequity worked well to discuss both how Robeson acts as a reform strategy and how important it is for educators to actively engage with antiracist pedagogy. The many ways Shang’s experiences and own feelings are interwoven in their analysis made me wonder about the different ways anthropologists engage with their fieldwork in their analyses. I enjoyed reading the quotes included from the people Shang observed and by including their reactions to their observations I felt that there were even more voices in discussion with the content. I wonder what the differences might have been if Shang observed a different classroom or even other areas of Robeson (cafeteria, advisory, etc.)