Review: Sadly true!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2012
No child left behind.  Seriously?  There's a whole generation being left behind. Ken Brimhall illustrates that very clearly in this novel, which makes you wonder how much of it was fiction and how much was based on fact.  Education is a very real problem today.  Teachers are just going through the motions, having given up and realising they probably will never make a difference.  What might have led them into teaching is no longer there.  Like Rubio and Sizemore in the story, they just go through the motions.  Go to work, try and motivate zonked out kids as best they can, claim their salary at the end of the month.  This book makes one think about where the problem lies.  Is it with the education authorities?  The lack of support administration gives its teachers?  Too much bureacracy?  Badly parented youth?  Maybe all of them.  There is no more respect for themselves and for each other.  Very thought-provoking story!