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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 09 17:04:25 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 06 19:41:29 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. This is the memoir of a brand new rookie teacher fresh from college and his first year in an inner city school in the Bronx PS #85. I have always had much respect for the job that teachers do and the responsibility that they have, this book took it up another notch.  The author Dan Brown  is able to convey the best and worst of what is like to be a new teacher in frankly some of the worst teaching circumstances I could imagine. Many times during the telling of his tale I would laugh out loud at the way he could find humor in his sometimes dismal situation, and want to cry for some of the kids that no matter what he did life circumstances would keep them from being successful. I think the best thing about the book was that even though  this book is sometimes about how hard it can be to be a teacher it left me feeling good knowing that there are teachers out there like him.  I am curious to hear what any of you fellow readers who are teachers or have been teachers think of the book.  tena]]></body>
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