Retired teacher finishes his memoirs in “Teacher Man”
Posted on December 8th, 2005 by Mr.Rcollins
A somewhat depressing view of what teaching has become is in Frank McCourt’s ‘Teacher Man’.
“It’s a disgrace,” McCourt says. “The teachers are kept in the school room an extra half hour a day. … Then they get home and have bags of papers to correct.
“I know from my own experience that if you sit down, you can’t make a dent on that bag of papers in an evening unless you ignore the wife, ignore the family, don’t go out. Maybe, the best thing to do is sit at home with a bottle of wine, and correct the papers in a semi-delirious state.”
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