Is our children learning?

If you'd like a trench-level view of the American education system, I suggest you check out the strangely-named Donna Martin Graduates, written by a friend of mine from high school. He does Teach For America in inner-city Houston and often gets some of the hardest-to-teach eight-year-olds. A sample of what he has to put up with every day:

Man, I really have no idea what I'm doing.

For the second day in a row, I had a kid utter an expletive at me. Last year the worst it got was this exchange:

Kid: "I failed my test! I'm so dumb!"
Me: "No, no you're not. Some people are just good at some things and not as good at other things."
Kid: "Like you and teaching?"

Oh, snap!

Posted by rj3 at October 12, 2004 3:21 PM

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