This book was chosen by The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International as
one of its Top 5 Must Reads for 2013. DKG is organized in 18 countries
around the world and works to promote professional and personal growth
for women educators and excellence in education. Teachers step to the
front of the classroom every day and do their darnedest to capture their
student's attention and keep it. But so many things get in the way:
unruly kids, disagreeable parents, homes so broken it is beyond
imagining, bureaucracy and red tape, the influence of technology and the
media, a culture that celebrates misguided values, and most intrusively,
government regulations that purport to improve teaching and learning,
but in fact, are destroying it. The Teachers' Lounge (Uncensored) gives
you a peek inside that classroom. Kelly Flynn takes readers by the hand
and says, "Come inside my school, walk a mile in my halls, and then
we'll talk about education reform." With breathtaking clarity and a
healthy dose of humor Kelly Flynn shares with readers what all teachers
know; that when you teach in a public school there are days that you
laugh, days that you cry, and days that you laugh until you cry. Each
student is surprisingly, delightfully, wildly different, which is
precisely why one-size-fits-all education does not work.
