Answer: The scary atmosphere grabs the reader's attention and dramatizes the loss of public schools.
Step-by-step explanation:
In this editorial cartoon by Bill Mauldin, the public school is portrayed as deteriorating and abandoned. There are bricks all around the building, that seem to have fallen off it. This picture of a dilapidated public schoolhouse is a metaphor for a problem present in the educational system - the public schools are being neglected and there is also a lack of teachers.