Dangerous Minds: (My Posse Don't Do Homework)
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| Author(s) | LouAnne Johnson |
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| Subtitle | (My Posse Don't Do Homework) |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Paperbacks |
| She bullied, bluffed, and bribed her students into caring about school.
And if that didn’t work, the pretty, petite ex-marine told them she’d been trained to kill with her bare hands. They were called the class from Hell-thirty-four inner city sophomores she inherited from a teacher who’d been “pushed over the edge.” She was told “those kids have tasted blood. They’re dangerous.” But LouAnne Johnson had a different idea. Where the school system saw thirty-four unreachable kids, she saw young men and women with intelligence and dreams. When others gave… | |
She bullied, bluffed, and bribed her students into caring about school.
And if that didn’t work, the pretty, petite ex-marine told them she’d been trained to kill with her bare hands.
They were called the class from Hell-thirty-four inner city sophomores she inherited from a teacher who’d been “pushed over the edge.” She was told “those kids have tasted blood. They’re dangerous.”
But LouAnne Johnson had a different idea. Where the school system saw thirty-four unreachable kids, she saw young men and women with intelligence and dreams. When others gave up on them, she broke the rules to give them the best things a teacher can give-hope and belief in themselves. When statistics showed the chances were they’d never graduate, she fought to beat the odds.
This is her remarkable story-and theirs.
If you loved Stand and Deliver, you’ll stand up and cheer for LouAnne Johnson and Dangerous Minds.
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