In 2008, Ed Boland, a well-off New Yorker who had spent 20 years as an executive at a nonprofit, had a midlife epiphany: He should leave his white-glove world, the galas at the Waldorf and drinks at the Yale Club, and go work with the city’s neediest children.
“The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School” (Grand Central Publishing) is Boland’s memoir of his brief, harrowing tenure as a public school teacher, and it’s riveting.
There’s nothing dry or academic here. It’s tragedy and farce, an economic and societal indictment of a system that seems broken beyond repair.
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News from South Africa. I wonder what it is like to be
ReplyDeletea teacher there.
http://www.whitenationnetwork.com/paper/?p=46679
Instead of attacking the culprits they attack a court
appointed attorney. Senseless, as usual.
Really and thanks.
DeleteI read the whole article. He asks what is he doing wrong? His sister says there are no easy answers. I disagree. What is wrong is years of liberalism running the education system and most everything else. There is an easy answer....
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Fla.
What is wrong is years of liberalism running the education system and most everything else.
DeletePretty simple, actually.
There is no such thing as public education...it has descended into propaganda and thuggery. Abandon hope all yea who enter.....
ReplyDeleteAbandon hope all yea who enter.....
DeleteAin't that the truth.:)
Well, when you get into the pit with the cobras, you shouldn't cry when when they bite you. It's an interesting wake-up call, nevertheless. :)
ReplyDeleteCentral Alabamaian
Well, when you get into the pit with the cobras, you shouldn't cry
DeleteReally,but they will still think that the government can fix this with just more money.