Though comedic, this teacher's journal has a serious side as well. It gives vivid and often appalling vignettes of students hopelessly preoccupied with themselves and pop culture, officials presiding over a dysfunctional and foundering system, teachers grappling with frustrations and sometimes leaving the profession, and parents deluded into thinking their kids are blameless angels whose poor grades must be the fault of teachers. The Whiteboard Jungle begun as a personal journal, and evolved into much more, provides a ...
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Though comedic, this teacher's journal has a serious side as well. It gives vivid and often appalling vignettes of students hopelessly preoccupied with themselves and pop culture, officials presiding over a dysfunctional and foundering system, teachers grappling with frustrations and sometimes leaving the profession, and parents deluded into thinking their kids are blameless angels whose poor grades must be the fault of teachers. The Whiteboard Jungle begun as a personal journal, and evolved into much more, provides a humorous, biting look into a year in the life of a middle school teacher.
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