My Posse Don't Do Homework

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These students didn't realize that this teacher would become their best friend, and would teach them some of the best lessons life has to offer. With unruly kids who don't hesitate to insult and harass, and who don't seem to care about their grades or future, the task gets exponentially harder. It doesn't matter how "nice" you may have been about it, your clear intention was still to get something out of them. The narrator of Muchacho, Eddie Corazon, is a 16-year-old juvenile delinquent and “secret reader” who attends an alternative high school in New Mexico.

The second thing in this book that enraged me was when the two girls, Maria and Isabella, got suspended I think? LouAnne Johnson is a former Marine Corps Officer and a journalist in the US Navy who restarted her career as an English teacher, aspiring to teach at a University. Since then LouAnne has taught English, adult basic education, developmental reading and writing at high schools and colleges. She has become so popular in the school that year after year every student wants to be in her class. Time Out wrote: "Actually it's quite a respectable piece of work, with an impressive tough-love performance from Pfeiffer, but Ronald Bass's hackneyed screenplay is all carrot and no stick.I truly envy such a satisfying profession, wherein one can retire to bed with the contentment of having touched someone in a significantly meaningful way.

I liked Johnson's narrative arc and the way she does move away from the idea that teachers can solve all of the problems that their students face.

The endless financial struggles to meet the needs of students and the financial stress teachers take upon themselves.

The Girls in the Back of the Class: They're High School Girls with Secrets, Trouble, and Two Choices-Dropping Out. Dangerous Minds is a book about a teacher on a mission to not only better her students’ grades but their lives as well. It’s been my experience that when you have self-destructive or apathetic students, instead of trying to teach them lessons, you will make much more progress if you try to find out what they think of themselves. But they feel constrained by the endless rules (many understandable) that hinder our education system. If you don't understand what kids are going through culturally and at home then you can actually help them.She ends up with a class of the worst-behaved kids in the school, near juvenile delinquents who consistently fail classes, threaten other students and went so far as to put their previous teacher in the hospital. Drawing on a wealth of journals, videotapes, police reports and personal interviews, Cullen sketches multifaceted portraits of the killers and the surviving community. Johnson said her teaching experience wasn’t much like Michelle Pfeiffer’s teaching experience in Dangerous Minds, the movie inspired by Johnson’s book.

Since 2010, Johnson has served as an adjunct instructor in the Teacher Education Department at Santa Fe Community College. The book was easy to read, and it allowed me the opportunity tp see what she encountered in a very tough school. Showing up the next day to begin teaching, however, she finds herself confronted with a classroom of tough, sullen teenagers, all from low-income working-class backgrounds, involved in gang warfare and drug pushing, flatly refusing to engage with anything.My lofty (and often scoffed at) ambition is to be able to do something as constructive with my life and career. I decided to check out the books My Posse Don’t Do Homework and The Girls in the Back of the Classroom by Louanne Johnson after having seen the movie Dangerous Minds. Maturity level might be a higher level for this book also because of the language used and the situations that happen in the book. If we’re talking pacing, I think Johnson’s Rule is just as good: speed up the momentum and heighten the specificity of a scene with a series of three or four everyday actions.