![]() ![]() The book is filled with guilt, poverty, and darkness. He lived in dire poverty throughout his childhood and youth, watching his alcoholic father and desperate mother through the loss of children, jobs, self-reliance, and every other source of any comfort. Born in Brooklyn in 1930, McCourt’s family returned to their native Ireland when he was young. People who read McCourt’s Pulitzer Prize winning memoir Angela’s Ashes will be familiar with the framework of his story. ![]() The book clearly and thoughtfully explores, through McCourt’s assumed confusion and lack of self-confidence, the chasms of despair and the few peaks of exaltation every teacher seeking to move kid’s experiences. Any experienced teacher reading through this excellent memoir will instantly recognize situations facing every teacher nearly every day – classroom management (an awful term for discipline), parent conferences, mindless mid-level bureaucrats, the kids who falls between the cracks, grammar and the research paper for students whose lives will never require either, and more. ![]() If I were teaching Education 101, I’d assign Frank McCourt’s Teacher Man as one of the first texts. ![]()
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