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Losing My Faculties
A Teacher’s Story
by Brendan Halpinπ° Losing My Faculties β Click Here π°
- Release date: August 10, 2004
- ISBN: 9780812969511 (0812969510)
- Language: english
- Genres: education, teaching, memoir, biography, teachers
- Format: paperback, 256 pages
- Author: Brendan Halpin
- Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
About The Book
I am just one of those rare and probably defective people who really enjoy the company of teenagers.
Brendan Halpinβs It Takes a Worried Man β a memoir of how he and his family dealt with his wifeβs battle against breast cancer β was praised for its can-dor, raw humor, and riveting voice. Halpin now turns his unique talent to an unforgettable account of the pursuit of his true calling: teaching.
Losing My Faculties follows Halpin through teaching jobs in an economically depressed white ethnic town, a middle-class suburb, a last-chance truancy prevention program in the inner city, and an ambitious college-prep urban charter school. In the same cuttingly observant voice that marked It Takes a Worried Man, Halpin tells us what it really means to be a teacher β the ups and downs in the classroom, the battles with administrators and colleagues, and the joy of doing a job that matters. Not the tale of a hero who changes his troubled studentsβ lives in one year, Losing My Faculties is, rather, the story of an all-too-fallible teacher who persists in spite of the frustrations that have driven so many others from the profession. After nine years of teaching, Halpin ο¬nds his idealism in shreds but his sense of humor and love for his work blessedly intact.
From the Hardcover edition.
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