Location is everything when it comes to schools, too
Harold M. Clemens, a pseudonymous teacher somewhere in the BPS system, reports that when he switched from a school in a largely black neighborhood to one in a largely white neighborhood, people stopped asking him how bad the kids were, even though the actual makeup of the student body is roughly the same:
... the irony is where I work now is faaarr liver than my old gig. today a kid got stomped in the caf 'til his assailants drew blood. I've heard about at least two other fights and I've broken up one myself. last week one of my students was jumped and another stabbed two days later. the school-year is barely a month old. from what I understand this year isn't an exception.
my racially paranoid mind compels me to wonder if my present school is shielded from having a reputation for violence because it sits in a mostly pale neighborhood.
Probably has to do more with
Probably has to do more with which neighborhoods are known for making the news for gang violence than those whom are not.
All those articles about
All those articles about high school and elementary school students writing papers in internet shorthand and slang make much more sense now.... what a great advertisement for home schooling.
Indeed, although we can hold
Indeed, although we can hold out hope that he is a math teacher.
He is....
in fact a Math teacher.
Not really fair
The article is written in a breezy, very informal style (almost as if the person werre talking) -- but the piece is clear and well-structured. On has no reason to assume that the author can't write (or detect errors) in more formal writing projects (his own or his students).
A matter of style
He is probably trying to remain pseudonymous and may be using these affectations of informality to obscure his identity.
Or
He's just letting his hair down.
das a good point yo
i been down like that b4
(PS to SG: "Change of diction", I think it's called.)
(PS to rage: see, it's funny because the first part was written in a different style than I usually write, so there's a compara-- so it's like different.)