Description: (Education, Satire, Autobiography) So Ya’ Wanna’ Be A Teacher tells the whole amazing true story of what really goes on in the typical American public school. The author was an English teacher for thirty-four years in a middle, junior-high and high school and knows all about the problem student, problem classes, crazy’ problem parents, student fighting, cheating, the Educational Aristocracy, nutty field trips, administrivia and bizarre assembly programs. The teacher in his career had taught over four thousand students, broken up over two-hundred and fifty fist fights, participated in over seven hundred fire drills and listened to loud school bells ring over a hundred and fifty thousand times. So Ya’ Wanna’ Be A Teacher! is a very funny work that also identifies the true causes of educational inefficiency that the politicians and the press either can’t pinpoint or are too afraid to reveal. The revolutionary book will inform the reader why Jimmy Brown doesn’t write well, why public schools are no longer about students learning academics and why American public school democratic education is failing the nation. The book is living proof that truth is often stranger than fiction. So Ya’ Wanna’ Be A Teacher! is author’ Jay Dubya’s sixteenth e-book. On April 17, 2003, So Ya' Wanna' Be A Teacher! was Sales Ranked #318 at Amazon.co.uk On May 8 SYWTBAT was Sales Ranked #72 at Amazon.com Paperback copies of So Ya' Wanna' Be A Teacher! (472 pages) are now available at ebookstand.com SYWTBAT is now available in hardcover at Amazon.com and at Barnes and Noble.com
Contents
Chapter 1 “Generally Speaking” 1
Chapter 2 “The Teacher as a Vital Non-Entity” 7
Chapter 3 “Role Reinforcement” 17
Chapter 4 “The Concept of Office” 25
Chapter 5 “Little Things Add’ Up” 33
Chapter 6 “A Teacher Mentor” 41
Chapter 7 “The College Academic Experience” 47
Chapter 8 “College Cheating” 59
Chapter 9 “Becoming a Teacher” 67
Chapter 10 “The Copernicus Play” 75
Chapter 11 “Other Members of the Class” 83
Chapter 12 “Bureaucracy, Teachers and Parents” 95
Chapter 13 “A Mistake in Judgment” 103
Chapter 14 “Summer Employment” 109
Chapter 15 “High School Permanent Sub” 121
Chapter 16 “Bill and I Get It Done” 131
Chapter 17 “Educational Socialism ” 137
Chapter 18 “The High School Faculty” 147
Chapter 19 “The MEATs” 161
Chapter 20 “A Nightmare Vacation Trip” 173
Chapter 21 “The Need for Competition” 179
Chapter 22 “The Problem Child” 189
Chapter 23 “The Parent Conference” 195
Chapter 24 “My Way” 207
Chapter 25 “Joe Dodge Graduates” 215
Chapter 26 “Homogeneous Grouping” 221
Chapter 27 “The Problem Class” 231
Chapter 28 “Group Un-therapy” 245
Chapter 29 “The Teacher’s Lowly Legacy” 259
Chapter 30 “The Teacher in the Community” 267
Chapter 31 “Proud Parents” 275
Chapter 32 “Why Jimmy Brown Doesn’t Write” 281
Chapter 33 “School Assemblies” 291
Chapter 34 “The Educational Aristocracy” 299
Chapter 35 “Minor Duties” 311
Chapter 36 “Degrading Grading” 323
Chapter 37 “The Williamsburg Field Trips” 333
Chapter 38 “The Guidance Game” 345
Chapter 39 “The Overprotective Parent” 355
Chapter 40 “Democracy and Education” 369
Chapter 41 “Crazy Things Happen” 377
Chapter 42 “The Board of Education” 387
Chapter 43 “A Tale of Four Professionals” 395
Chapter 44 “Contract Negotiations” 405
Chapter 45 “School Board Proposals” 411
Chapter 46 “Problem Students, Problem Parents” 417
Chapter 47 “Inefficient Schools” 429
Chapter 48 “Fighting in Schools” 437
Chapter 49 “Teachers and Administrators” 449
Chapter 50 “Multicultural Education” 461
Chapter 51 “The End of a Career” 473
Addendum “Darwin, Einstein and John Dewey” 486
