[lbo-talk] Confessions of a bad teacher

[michael perelman]

When I was in grad school at Berkeley, I volunteered at the Prescott
School.  The teacher was a recent graduate who was out of touch with
the poor, unprepared students.  I tried to tutor some of the least
prepared students, but could not make much progress.

I finally came upon a solution.  I took the five more disruptive
students out of the room to play basketball, hoping that the teacher
could salvage a few of the others.  I guess that I was a bad teacher,
but then the charter schools, which are good at education, follow the
same strategy, refusing to deal with students with learning
disabilities.
-- 
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA
95929

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