If you too are unable to get either the condensed edition or the actual book, then you may also watch the movie that had been made based on this book – Dangerous Minds.

This bullshit people believe that school is safer than anything else in the world is exactly that: bullshit. And I was just like… ‘Your son held a knife to your wife’s throat…and you’re acting like it’s just no big deal? She spent seven years as a radio-TV broadcaster and one year as a Marine Corps Officer, after graduating as Honor Woman in her Marine Corps OCS class. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

While her Marine Corps training helped, Johnson found the caring parts of her personality more effective in dealing with the recalcitrant students she met as a teacher of English at ``Parkmont High,'' an inner-city school in California. This book was just up my street for any educators who don't believe that one size fits all you'll enjoy this read immensely and be revitalised by it.

A couple criticisms: (I can't remember which book each one occurs in) There was a boy who would wear a black t-shirt with a skull on it, and for some reason, this was criticized.The series premiered on ABC on September 30, 1996, and ended on March 15, 1997, after one season of seventeen episodes. Some parts, however, I was disappointed particular events from the film didn't happen in the book - but knowing they didn't occur was a pleasant surprise (no spoilers).

Edward Guthmann in the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: "It's contrived, it's hokey, but in Dangerous Minds, a Michelle Pfeiffer vehicle, it works surprisingly well. The students show some interest in such activities, but withdraw when LouAnne tries to teach the curriculum. Emilio Ramirez is her most troublesome personal "project", as he believes strongly in a sense of personal honor that prevents him from asking for help. Before, the students laughed at Shakespeare, but now she made it so intense for them that they want to read every single book he wrote.That said, I thought the description of ex-colleagues was unprofessional in places and some of her methods unsustainable. We've been up this down staircase before, especially in the late 1960's when an armful of books (by Kozol, Kohl, Herndon) first dramatized great inequities in school systems and the sad shuffle awaiting those least able to speak up for themselves. If you believe you are superior to somebody and you are going to save them, they will resist you, even if they are drowning, if they didn’t ask for your help. No mention of boyfriend or husband or friends outside of school - she was committed to those kids - reminds me of the old days when women were not allowed to teach after they got married.

With unruly kids who don't hesitate to insult and harass, and who don't seem to care about their grades or future, the task gets exponentially harder. Contending that the values clarification programs inspired by his archvillain, psychotherapist Carl Rogers, actually inculcate values confusion, Sowell argues that the universal demand for relevance and sensitivity to the whole student has led public schools to abdicate their responsibility to such educational ideals as experience and maturity. A former Marine recounts her first years as a teacher in an inner-city high school in California, describing the tactics she used to persuade her students to take school seriously and her frustration.Finally, after the media and rescue workers had arrived, timed bombs in the killers’ cars would explode, wiping out hundreds more. She has become so popular in the school that year after year every student wants to be in her class.