Sunday, January 24, 2016

My year of terror and abuse teaching at a NYC high school

Via David


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.

8 comments:

  1. News from South Africa. I wonder what it is like to be
    a teacher there.
    http://www.whitenationnetwork.com/paper/?p=46679
    Instead of attacking the culprits they attack a court
    appointed attorney. Senseless, as usual.

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  2. I 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....

    Terry
    Fla.

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    1. What is wrong is years of liberalism running the education system and most everything else.

      Pretty simple, actually.

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  3. There is no such thing as public education...it has descended into propaganda and thuggery. Abandon hope all yea who enter.....

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    1. Abandon hope all yea who enter.....

      Ain't that the truth.:)

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  4. 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. :)


    Central Alabamaian

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    1. Well, when you get into the pit with the cobras, you shouldn't cry

      Really,but they will still think that the government can fix this with just more money.

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