Summary: The article discusses the background and an interview with a conversation with a man who worked as a teacher in a South Bronx school in the New York City school district. He describes that his experience with nothing short of disheartening. The principal refused to work with him or be on his side when he was trying to give his students an education experience rather than trying to get good test scores and get them to just graduate. The teacher explains that he wrote a book to try and get the word out that some schools are not treating students the way they should be treated, instead it is just a numbers scam. The idea is that having the book will help to reveal these schools and demand a change.
Opinion: It's so disheartening to read an article like this and know that there really are schools like that out there. Having an education should teach you more than how to do math or what you learn from a specific book, it should teach you how to lead a full and purposeful life, and how your education can take you to new places. Administration should encourage teachers to develop personal relationships with their students and know that the student can go to to them in confidence if there is a serious issue. Schools should provide a positive learning environment that encourages students to stand out rather than to be "just a number or statistic".
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