Tell me in my ear, teacher: tales from an inner-city school.

Commonweal | April 21, 1995| | Copyright

I began teaching in New York City in the fall of 1962. I was assigned to Eli Whitney Vocational High School, now defunct. Whitney was, in the parlance of the time, a "ghetto school." The pupils were a tough group. They would learn, if one made them. At the start of every class they tested the teacher. It almost seemed as though they demanded a struggle, requiring the teacher to put himself out before they did.

How does a teacher survive in the classroom? How does he take control? The odds for success are not in his favor. He is one against thirty or forty, and once he ...

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