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

From: Commonweal | Date: April 21, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

A teacher who taught at New York, New York's Eli Whitney Vocational High School from 1962 to 1967 recalls how challenging it was to command the attention and respect of the ghetto school's street-hardened students. Three heroic teachers and one poor teacher are profiled.

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 ...

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