I was disappointed in The Emergency Teacher--the Inspirational Story of a New Teacher in an Inner City School by Christina Asquith. It’s about a journalist who decides to be an emergency teacher for a year in an inner city school in Philadelphia that has a reputation as a bad school. The school district was so desperate that it accepted practically anybody—no teaching degree necessary. Even then, the special Ed class never did get a steady teacher. This book tells the tragic story about the inequities in education in America. The author wrote about her own experience in teaching a 6th grade class in a bilingual school. She soon found out teaching was not as easy as she thought it would be.
This is not the typical inspirational story about how a teacher goes into a tough class and turns it around, making a difference in their lives. This one sadly is probably more realistic. Yes, the teacher tries to teach; yes, she becomes attached to her students and cares about them; and yes, her students come around and like her for the most part. However, few if any graduate. It shows more failures than successes. It started off very slow and I almost gave up on this one but then about halfway through it finally got better.
(Karen's review)
Here's my teaser.
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