Lights Out at Northern: A Detroit Teacher's Diary
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (994 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1436347548 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A Critique of Lights Out at Northern" according to History Man. This is the book that every inner city teacher hoped to write some day. However, such an account takes a fair amount of courage to tell. The truth often stings. To sting one's super ordinates in the Detroit Public Schools can prove injurious to one's career.Perry Munson was a compassionate, concerned science teacher in one of the poorest and most violent schools in America, namely, Detroit Northern. He sympathetically relates the frustration in teaching under appalling conditions of pov. A Horror Story of the First Caliber L. Taddie A horror story of the first caliber with a dark ending saved only by small slivers of light, hope, and determination. This work is a brutally honest, true account of bedlam that is the Detroit Public School System. The author tells a tragic tale in sensitive, painful, and, at times, humorous detail of corruption, incompetence, violence, and waste of human potential and millions of dollars in the inner city public school system. In this chaos, the author, a small band of hardy colleagues. Sorry state of our schools Alene E. Greenland I am so glad my children didn't have to go to school under these conditions and know that there has to be something done about them. You probably had to be there to really understand the scope of the problem. More people need to be aware that this kind of problem exists.
Months lead to years and he describes the dynamics of teaching in a inner-city school. As he drives he reflects on the land he crosses and the experiences he had in school in rural South Dakota and how it shaped his outlook. He, a teacher, is moving there because his wife, a pathologist has found a new job at Detroit Medical Center. The diary becomes the stream of consciousness of a hard-working, dedicated teacher who is tormented by what he sees and cannot change. His journal is that of an observer from the outside looking in. There are successes, but the climb is constantly uphill due to administrative bungling, a pathetic lack of supplies and low expectations placed on students by the system. As the years go by, the school is engifted with a huge grant from the Kellogg Foundation. It is supposed to reform the school and result in a "turn-around" that never happens. Yet, he is on the road with no way to turn back. The opening of the story vividly follows the author's relocation to Detroit, Michigan from Seattle, Washington. As he drives, he has great doubts about moving to Michigan and questions his future there. The scene shifts to his experiences while moving in and getting settled and the adjustments he has to make to live in a large, crime-ridden Midwestern city. Corruption, abysmal administrative incompetence and even great, but not-to-numerous, educational triumphs go d
Perry Munson was born in South Dakota in 1945 and grew up on a farm. He is married and has three grown children and four grandchildren. A renaissance man outside the classroom, he is an accomplished skier, sailor, boat builder and mountaineer. Next he earned a B.A. . He attended the University of South Dakota and became a Registered Nurse and served in the Army Nurse Corps during the Viet Nam war. in Chemistry at USD and sp
Next he earned a B.A. in Chemistry at USD and spent a career teaching high school science in Germany, Utah, Texas and finally Detroit Public Schools for his last sixteen years. A renaissance man outside the classroom, he is an accomplished skier, sailor, boat builder and mountaineer. About the Author Perry Munson was born in South Dakota in 1945 and grew up on a farm. He is married and has three grown children and four grandchildren. He attended the University of South Dakota and became a Registered Nurse and served in