“Maybe that teacher already understood what I now understand – that when kids give up and drop out, they perpetuate the vicious cycle in which their offspring grown up in an alliterate environment and become the next generation of struggling readers whose teachers might chant: “These kids can’t read.” (Page 7)
This chapter helped remind me that the first year of teaching will be nothing that I expect. It won’t be candy coated and sprinkled with glitter, it will be hard. We never know what to expect. I really enjoyed the first chapter. It was nice to read about her experience with George during her first year of teaching. The passage above really stood out for me. It is our job to make sure we are the teacher that corrects a student’s reading problems and we shouldn’t leave it up to somebody else. We are all reading teachers regardless of our subject area.
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