Tony Danza
Iâ€™d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had ,is television, screen and stage star Tony Danzaâ€™s absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphiaâ€™s largest high school with 3600 students.Â  ,Â ,Entering Northeastâ€™s crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony found his way to a classroom filled with twenty-six students who were determined not to cut him any slack.Â  They cared nothing about â€œMr. Danzaâ€™sâ€ showbiz credentials, and they immediately put him on the hot seat.Â  ,Â ,Featuring indelible portraits of students and teachers alike, ,Iâ€™d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had ,reveals just how hard it is to keep todayâ€™s technologically savvy â€“ and often alienated -- students engaged, how impressively, committed, most teachers are, and the outsized role counseling plays in a teacherâ€™s day, given the psychological burdens many students carry.Â  The book also makes vivid how a modern high school works, showing Tony in a myriad of roles â€“ from lecturing on ,To Kill a Mockingbird, to â€œcoachingâ€ the football team to organizing a talent show to leading far-flung field trips to hosting teacher gripe sessions. ,Â ,A surprisingly poignant account, ,Iâ€™d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher ,I Ever Had is sometimes laugh-out-loud funny but is mostly filled with hard-won wisdom and feel-good tears.
Nonfiction,Education,Autobiography,Memoir,Biography,Teaching,Biography,Autobiography,Adult,Audiobook,Biography Memoir,Humor
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