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Storyline

War veteran Rick Dadier is one of three new teachers hired at North Manual High School, an inner city boys school. This is his first teaching assignment, which he needs to support himself and his insecure pregnant wife, Anne.

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The original novel was based on author Evan Hunter 's own experiences as a teacher in New York City's tough South Bronx area. Hunter (who found fame as crime writer Ed McBain) said, "I thought I was going to give these kids who want to be motor mechanics Shakespeare and they were going to appreciate it and they weren't buying it.

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Absorbed this novel. One of those rarities which I always recommend and often reflect back on in my daily happenings. Impactful and one for the ages. Highly recommend.

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

It has been a long time away. I ran my own private language school in the third world. I got cancer & emigrated to the UK. I started work at a massive (& superb) academy.

Thursday, December 01, 2011

My phone buzzes during poetry class. The plumber is coming, and I can't afford to miss his text. I blush, and check the phone as surreptitiously as I can, which is to say, in full glaring adolescent spotlight.

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

So Holly is learning English with me, and at the local uni ( pffft! ), and simultaneously on the internet. I realise this when she knows every slang word to every pop song, and when she drops her pencil, and accompanies it with a loud "Fuck!"

Sunday, July 15, 2007

But that wasn't why I stopped writing. I got a job - in addition to the other two jobs I was working - training future English teachers, in a local pedagogical institute. Twenty hours a week, contact time (teaching time, to the un-industrialised): it didn't seem a lot.

Friday, December 22, 2006

It's a shock, the transfer from teaching at a British state school to teaching at a small school in private sector Peru.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Like a naughty child avoiding her homework, I've secretly started teaching again.

Sunday, May 14, 2006

Do I miss teaching? Yes, of course. There were moral certainties involved in a job like that (which appeal to someone lazy like myself, because then I don't have to sit around and invent my own moral certainties).