Review: Ugly Truth
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2012
This book exposes the seamy side of what is going on in our public schools today - especially those in low income areas. In my 31 years of teaching "at risk" students I have seen just about everything this book describes from the uncaring administrators with the six figure salaries, two hour lunch periods, who plan on their next tax-payer funded trip to San Francisco to the uncaring students who don't even have the proper school supplies. Apathetic or belligerent parents, counselors and facilitators who lock themselves in their offices, principals who do not back up teachers attempting to discipline students, back-stabbing teachers who persuade their students to lie about other teachers in order to get their job, etc. etc. all may be unbelievable, but are all too real. The ending is especially compelling, although I don't totally agree with Sizemore's opinion of himself. The book itself is well-written and engaging; the authors draw the reader into the world of mojos and mojas, and those who deal with them on a daily basis.