Everyone's been goggling at the rampaging of teens at malls all over the U.S. THAT is the reality of what's in teachers' classrooms, MUCH more than your idyllic experience. I found myself wondering for an instant "What's the big deal? Why is this rampaging through malls so news worthy?" until I realized most people don't know what it's like to have large groups of out of control kids in one place at one time, and--to boot--organized through social media to meet to do it. Those kids you saw on the videos running mindlessly and destructively through malls, destroying stuff and pushing people just for fun--those are our students. Theirs is the mentality we daily deal with. With that as your raw material, let's see what YOU could do with it. Don't use To Sir With Love or any of those tales as your goal, because there's a 99% chance it ain't gonna happen as you hope. Couple that with a teaching methodology forced upon teachers which has nothing to do with reality, and get back to me.
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