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Loading... The Way It Spozed to Be (original 1968; edition 1969)by James Herndon
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A first-year teacher's semi-stream-of-consciousness account of his first year of teaching in George Washington Junior High, somewhere in California. He captures the frustration and futility of trying to teach English to 7th, 8th and 9th grade students who have not been successfully educated up to grade level in their previous years in public schools. The mis-directed ambition of the students is especially poignant. It is a real downer to keep in mind that this book was written 40 years ago. I think not much has changed since 1965 for many students in similar circumstances. ( ) no reviews | add a review
'The Way It Spozed to Be' deals incisively with what is still the root problem of ghetto schools: their appalling failure to reach the kids, their obsession with rote learning and imposed discipline, which only drives them further into apathy and rebellion. . . This book exposes the conflict between image and reality, between the way things 'spozed to be' and the way they are. No library descriptions found. |
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