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Something About Me and My Book:: Mr. A, a teacher, burst into the principal’s office and wrestled the scissors-wielding principal off the long-haired boy, whose mother was killed the night before.
As assistant principal, he felt like a traitor as he watched two sheriff deputies beat up one of his trusting students. He dealt with a teenager whose tardy excuse was that a bird landed on his head and wouldn’t let go.
Mr. A erred in judgment, the results of which ended up with a bloody, pulverized fourteen-year-old. Did the teenager Mr. A identified as a potential shooter pull it off?
These and other episodes tell what’s inside the walls, and behind the scenes, of public schools. By reading the tell-all chapters in this book, you will hear the staff and students try to make their way through Mr. A’s classroom and assistant principal’s office, and the halls of "Westmont High.” You’ll be with him as he counsels athletes. The author has been through it all during his forty-three years in education. He has left a footprint on six decades, from 1959 through 2003. Mr. A tells true stories that will make you cry, laugh, and shudder.

Mr. A’s Final Exam is a necessary read for anyone who is considering becoming a teacher and anyone who is one or has been one. Parents, as well, will find this candid view most revealing. The readers will learn about the weaknesses of the education process in our public schools. The book is a compilation of amusing and not so amusing anecdotes and Mr. A’s heretical views of public school administration.

About the Author

Harvey Allen holds a B.A. degree from California State University, Los Angeles, and an M.S. in Education from the University of Southern California. Mr. Allen lives with his wife in Santa Monica, California.

Website:: http://www.mrafinalexam.com

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Public Schools: the Good, the Comical, and the Absurd

Today, admittedly, there is a teacher shortage. The thing of it is, ever since I started teaching in 1959, there has been a teacher shortage. Overcrowded classes falsely assured us there was no teacher shortage. When forty pupils are placed in one class, instead of reasonably making two classes of twenty, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out more teachers will be needed.

Why didn’t anybody fix the problem? Simply, it was too expensive. The governments, both federal and state,… Continue

Posted on March 19, 2010 at 12:24pm

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At 3:31pm on June 13, 2010, T.F. Hodge said…: Welcome to BMN, Mr. A! I can't thank you enough for sharing your book with me. It was an excellent way to pass the time while working with you on set.

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