Why we are reading these books.

I think we are reading these specific books because they each tell the story of a teacher and what they went through. I'm reading Teacher Man and he talks about when he first started teaching, coming here, being Irish with his brogue and all. He started out in a vocational school and his kids were the ones that the other teachers didnt want to deal with. It was not his ideal class. He just wanted to teach English and yet he could not teach them a single lesson. It basically shows teaching from the other side, preparing us for what is to come. Every class can not be the ideal one; you dont know what your class is going to be like. I think it prepares you a bit for what could happen and it shows the changes of teaching from then to now. For instance, he hit a kid in the face with a rolled up magazine and didn't get in trouble. Yet if that happens now, you will lose your career. I feel that this book, as well as the others, gives us insight as for what is to come.