Tony Danza talks about his experience teaching tenth-grade English for a year at Philadelphia’s largest high school. I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High includes portraits of students and teachers, and reveals how hard he found it to keep students engaged, how committed he found most teachers to be, and the role of teacher as counselor.
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Comments [2]
Amazing interview and thank you to Tony Danza for telling it like it is.
"They go to the mall and they see what's important"
"They watch Jersey Shore and see what's important"
So sad but true!
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