Teacher Man: a Memoir
“The main building was overcrowded and I was assigned to an annex, an abandoned elementary school by the East River. My teenagers complained about the discomfort and indignity of squeezing their growing bodies into baby furniture.
This was a melting-pot school: Jewish, Chinese, Puerto Rican, Greek, Dominican, Russian, Italian, and I had no preparation or training for teaching English as a Second Language.
Kids want to be cool. Never mind what parents say, or adults in general. Kids want ...to hang out and talk street language. They want to swear eloquently. You can curse and swear and you are a man, man.
And if you’re hanging out and this foxy white chick comes along the sidewalk you can look cool as shit, man, but if you don’t got the words or you got some kinda crazy foreign accent she ain’t gonna give you even a look and you are home, man, playing with yourself and pissed off because English is a bitch of a language that makes no sense and you’ll never learn it.MoreLess
This was a melting-pot school: Jewish, Chinese, Puerto Rican, Greek, Dominican, Russian, Italian, and I had no preparation or training for teaching English as a Second Language.
Kids want to be cool. Never mind what parents say, or adults in general. Kids want ...to hang out and talk street language. They want to swear eloquently. You can curse and swear and you are a man, man.
And if you’re hanging out and this foxy white chick comes along the sidewalk you can look cool as shit, man, but if you don’t got the words or you got some kinda crazy foreign accent she ain’t gonna give you even a look and you are home, man, playing with yourself and pissed off because English is a bitch of a language that makes no sense and you’ll never learn it.MoreLess
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