Well, Bel Kaufman - my polar opposite as a cool-brained adult - stood up against that Rulebook to make it HUMAN. Wow, did I get my act in gear! The Fear of God was put into me. So get this: a green, pampered kid who was too cool for rules ran up against a Cold, Hard High School Rulebook - I was CLOBBERED by it. I was a mess of a kid, looking for a rod and a staff to "comfort" me some.
Mom let me watch TV later than my younger siblings, and she let me do my homework lying down. (Paul Simon)Īnd that year, 1963, I was Dadless. I gotta tell you, I for one had been spoiled at home! Kids like me didn’t adjust well sometimes, because we COULDN’T STAND ADULT RULES.
When I was thirteen, I think my high school actually had "down staircases," (or so it seems to me now in retrospect sixty years after the fact) because I absolutely adored this book as a green freshman.Īnd Kids nowadays should love it - especially if they've matured a bit - cause it shows the modern high school from the POV of a teacher who's on THEIR side.
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