Two weeks in and Boland was crying in the bathroom. Kids were tossing $110 textbooks out the window. They overturned desks and stormed out of classrooms. There were seventh-grade girls with tattoos and T-shirts that read, “I’m Not Easy But We Can Negotiate.” Their self-care toggled in the extreme, from girls who gave themselves pedicures in class to kids who went days without showering.
Kameron was in a league of his own. “I was genuinely afraid of him from the minute I set eyes on him,” Boland writes. After threatening to blow up the school, Kameron was suspended for a few months, and not long after his return, a hammer and a double switchblade fell out of his pockets.
The principal gave up. Kameron was expelled.
“Oh, they getting real tough around here now,” one student said. “Three hundred strikes, you out.”
Everyone regardless of race, sexual orientation and political affiliation would feel stressed teaching at some inner city schools. The environment is tense.
I was thinking about doing Teach For America after college until my cousin who worked in an inner-city district talked me out of it. I feel so bad for him after reading this, quitting his job just to Help underprivileged kids only to be humiliated like that. Mess.
It is quite sad because many of these kids have dreams of becoming doctors, lawyers, dentists, engineers, etc., but do not realize the grades, work ethic, and involvement in your school necessary to achieve that.
a couple of these types came through my high school - condescending, patronizing and naive as ****. "It's so hard to teach in the inner city, it's so stressful " Yeah, imagine LIVING THERE your entire life. I bet that's stressful too! gtfoh with that martyr complex
i really dont understand how the title applies to this story.
Did you not read it? A white, gay man who identified as liberal was harassed and terrorized by students at an inner city school. I can't think of a more succinct title.
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I'd be interested in reading the book. It sounds like a good read
a couple of these types came through my high school - condescending, patronizing and naive as ****. "It's so hard to teach in the inner city, it's so stressful " Yeah, imagine LIVING THERE your entire life. I bet that's stressful too! gtfoh with that martyr complex
so basically you are asking one of the few who wanted to help these kids to gtfo? that's why the inner city kids will remain in poverty and crime
" Yeah, imagine LIVING THERE your entire life. I bet that's stressful too! gtfoh with that martyr complex