My Posse Don't Do Homework

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My Posse Don't Do Homework

My Posse Don't Do Homework

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So, I would simply ask that you view the movie as a movie and not as a reflection of my personality, teaching techniques, teaching philosophy, and definitely not as a reflection of my attitude toward students. If you too are unable to get either the condensed edition or the actual book, then you may also watch the movie that had been made based on this book – Dangerous Minds. If there were more teachers who were able to do what LouAnne Johnson did, how many more children would be saved from the bleak life of the streets?

And don’t think that you can stop them either…you think that just because you’re a grown-up and they’re a teen, they can’t kick your ass? One way she does this is by collapsing series of three or four small actions into quick, efficient summaries that propel the scene. Where the school system saw thirty-four unreachable kids, she saw young men and women with intelligence and dreams.I was told, for example, when I protested the racial stereotypes in Dangerous Minds (all black kids are raised by crackhead single moms, all Hispanic teens are gangsters because their parents don’t care, black parents resent effective white teachers), I was told in a very haughty voice that the “gangologist” on their staff assured them that their movie was an accurate depiction. Johnson recounts her real-life encounters with "problem" teens, sharing her strategies, challenges, frustrations and extremely inspiring and moving experiences. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins.

While her Marine Corps training helped, Johnson found the caring parts of her personality more effective in dealing with the recalcitrant students she met as a teacher of English at ``Parkmont High,'' an inner-city school in California.

Her memoir, My Posse Don't Do Homework, was based upon her experiences teaching at-risk teens at Carlmont High, where she taught for four years before moving to New Mexico to attend graduate school in creative writing.

If you don't understand what kids are going through culturally and at home then you can actually help them. Colorful anecdotes detail the successes and setbacks of an inspirational teacher with a crusty sense of humor who has resorted to ``a little blatant bribery'' and devised unorthodox approaches (one elaborate scheme involving kissing a kid who slept in class) to accommodate minority students' learning styles and improve their self-images. 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. No mention of boyfriend or husband or friends outside of school - she was committed to those kids - reminds me of the old days when women were not allowed to teach after they got married. Instead, they inspired in her the unwavering grit to make them learn and reform them for the better.Let me be clear: I think Dangerous Minds has its good points – it inspired a lot of kids to stay in school, it inspired many people to pursue their dreams of becoming teachers, and it inspired the brilliant song, “Gangsta’s Paradise. There are always deserted places in schools where no teacher, administrator, or grown-up in general is around, and EVEN IF they are…if someone’s crazy enough to attack someone else, do you honestly think they’ll care if they have witnesses? Some of the thins LouAnne Johnson does is like she wrote the book herself and all of these happened to her in her career.



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