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Kill Your Teacher: Corruption And Racism in Los Angeles City Schools
frontpagemag ^ | November 13, 2006 | Lee Kaplan

Posted on 11/14/2006 2:38:56 PM PST by Main Street

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To: A_perfect_lady
Most of them, by the end of the semester if I've trained them to push in their chairs before they leave, it keeps me going for another year.

I did my student teaching in an inner city school here in Kentucky. It wasn't near as bad as the article above, or even what you wrote, but it was bad enough. I was in a second grade classroom at the time, and was offered a third grade position. My first thought was, "Do they think I haven't seen what has gone on around here?" I turned it down.

I have been unable to find a permanent position since then but I don't regret turning the job down for one second.

I'm subbing in my own district now. Yesterday I faced my biggest problem yet! A fourth grader placed the class hermit crab on the lid of my coffee cup. LOL!

81 posted on 11/16/2006 11:07:10 AM PST by Dianna
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That's cute about the hermit crab. ;^) I'm lucky. So far my students haven't done anything hair-raising to me. Overall they seem to like me, but it is definitely the most stressful, exhausting, frustrating job I've ever had. And I've had plenty of other jobs, plus military experience. This does beat all for just draining the life out of you. Ah, but the vacations... the vacations...


82 posted on 11/16/2006 11:57:44 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: lowbridge

Just got my copy... signed by the man himself. :-)


83 posted on 02/20/2007 12:45:59 AM PST by CounterCounterCulture (The originator of the Hillary Squid pic)
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Shifren's book, Kill Your Teacher: Corruption And Racism in Los Angeles City Schools

Just got my copy... signed by the man himself. :-)

You're saupposed to mug him for it, on the grounds of a schoolhouse. :-)

84 posted on 02/20/2007 8:32:20 AM PST by lowbridge ("Of course Americans should vote Democrat" -Jihad Jaara, senior member, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade)
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