Too Dangerous to Teach

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Summary: GREAT READ
Review: "To Dangerous To Teach" is too good to miss. This incredible story is so well told that it aroused anger, incredulity, disgust,empathy and pushed all my buttons. If you have an interest in how schools are run, students are being taught, teachers are asked to assume burdens beyond the classroom, this story will capture you. Elizabeth Feinman's struggle to be a great teacher while protecting her professional status makes a great read.

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Summary: What Price Honesty
Review: "Too Dangerous to Teach" is an absorbing and sometimes frightening account of the extreme dangers one is likely to face for daring to be truthful to one's beliefs in the face of the establishment. It is also a powerful indictment of a school system in which seeking revenge and personal political gain under the guise of concern for educational excellence and student safety is the order of the day. It's a story that needed to be told, and Ms Kleinman has done so with flying colors. George Mandel

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Summary: This book will get you to think
Review: Elizabeth....worked in a Kafka-esque world where evil ruled....(That)she survived with her principles in tact is....a triumph. Every chapter will shock you!

Dr. Richard Saland

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Summary: Ethics and morals are too dangerous!
Review: I am at the end of Chapter 19 and ready to stomp the Glenda character into the ground. Had this woman ever taught before? Ever been in a school enviroment before? Any request you or anyone else (Ellie) had was turned into a battle for and an insult for her. I don't think she saw the big picture by any means. I am really enjoying reading your book and feel like I'm in the hallway or in the gym with you. Your excellant descriptions keep it vibrant in my head.

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Summary: GOOD-BYE CAMELOT
Review: I attended 2 of these "fictional" schools during the Camelot years of education on Long Island. Isobel Kleinman was my Phys. Ed. teacher. YOU WILL BE RIVETED by her story...I could not put the book down!

The sacrificing of excellent teachers to maintain bogus grading, attendance, & behavioral statistics for financial gain, awards recognition, better budgets, & increased property values is a pathetic state of affairs for education. The district fear factor, outrageous ratio of non-tenured teachers, & growing number of retired good teachers will create the perfect environment for this corrupt district to reign. The fabrications & perjury of the students, faculty, & administration is astonishing!
- June Cwiek Jordan

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Summary: Too good to teach!
Review: I got angry at the immoral way administrators disposed of a darned good teacher who became a perceived threat to their personal aspirations, simply because she had a great vision which encompassed giving priority to the needs of the children! What does "education" stand for, if not providing the best environment for learning? How can an "excellent record" of any administrator or school be applied in an arbitrary fashion to results based on the numbers of kids pushed through the system? Well written the story combines amusing anecdotes interspersed with frightening pictures of power struggles. This book provides a warning for all idealistic teachers.

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Summary: Review by a layman (non-education professional)
Review: I loved this book. From the beginning, I became caught up in the daily triumphs, struggles, disappointments and necessary adjustments of the narrator in pursuing her passion for teaching.

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Summary: Too dangerous to work!!!
Review: Isobel Kleinman told us how a school district with no standards can engineer a dedicated teacher's dismissal. Where was her union when the district set her up for failure and used the students to this end. Ms Kleinman describes how her naive support of the students and academic stardards led to disaster. All teachers should read this book to learn how important it is to develop survival skills in a district that seems to support passing students just to pass them rather than educating them for their future benefit. Her dialogue was so engrossing and events so riveting that I couldn't put it down.
A must read.

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Summary: Reads Like a Spy Thriller
Review: This true story reads like a first class spy thriller. It is so surreal that Stephen King could not do a better job. The average person would not think things like this could possibly happen in a field that is supposed to be dedicated to educating our students. Instead, we find that solid professionalism takes a back seat to powerful individuals political agenda. I am a teacher and have seen some pretty strange things happen, but never on this scale. Read it and see what I mean.

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Summary: Thrilling
Review: Your (hi)story remains so fascinating that I only reluctantly interrupt
reading it to look up words in the dictionary. It took a while since it is
not written in my native tongue but (it) is fascinating and (a book) one can
hardly stop reading. You certainly are a gifted writer. The more I read the
more I felt uneasy, annoyed (and)even disgusted by the behavior of some
people you describe. If it were a story that (was) made up from a to z,
OK, but when . . . everything really happened - well then it is almost a
miracle that you are still the sound mind and pleasant, interesting, engaged
and lively, well-balanced person friends love and appreciate.
Congratulations Erwin Kaufmann