What is it like teaching in an inner-city high school and is it dangerous?
I love teaching at an inner-city high school. Why? Because the students are great. What they may lack in financial resources they more than make for in HEART. Truly, I feel blessed to know so many of these teens the way I do. It’s my — not their — good fortune that has me teaching where I do and I can honestly say, it is undoubtedly the most personally rewarding work I have ever done. Yes, it can be brutally hard and yes, public education in America is badly broken in many ways but once again, let me say, I LOVE IT!! Teaching where I do is the best! But is it dangerous? No. Well, yes and no. Hmm, how can I explain it? Not any more so than the rest of America in many ways but when you look at it like that, it’s hard not to deny that there are some “issues” to deal with both on our campus and in our community. Unfortunately, the media portrays schools like mine in a manner that is designed to highlight and sensationalize the bad stuff because there is a financial profit to be gained by m
