Another teacher came into the coffee shop. I could tell because he had the same industrial-style laptop bag that all of us lug around, thanks to City Schools."That's a good book," he chin-jerked toward the splayed pages on top of my file of "to be graded" papers.
"I'll be teaching it this week."
"What grade?"
"Seventh." He cringed. He knew it was about a fifth grade level book, that my seventh graders should be reading The Outsiders or To Kill a Mockingbird or Things Fall Apart, and so did I. But I also want my students to feel successful and tackle big issues like segregation and divorce and the idea that schooling does not always equal education. Am I short-changing them?
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