{"product_id":"2940152397192","title":"Three-Legged Bears","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree-Legged Bears\u003cbr\u003eBaxter is an emotionally bankrupt high school where truth and honesty have lost the battle against lies and political posturing. Death, deceit, murder, suicide -plagues of the twentieth century- erode and chip away at Jim as he tries to put meaning into his life. A short, balding, out of shape teacher who drinks too much just wants to teach. \"I want to tell kids stuff, you know?\"\u003cbr\u003eDuring a visit to the zoo with his girlfriend, they watch the antics of a three-legged bear. The bear, he suddenly realizes, is Baxter. The school, and everyone associated with the system is handicapped -crippled by lack of enthusiasm, imagination and humanity.\u003cbr\u003eHis only solace comes from teaching a group of mis-fits, a group of kids intellectually deprived and emotionally handicapped. These kids, so labeled by a society crippled by rules and convention, are the real people, a true cross-section of humanity. They are his awakening. “Are schools failing?” he asks. Does the system fulfill its obligations? Who, in fact, are the mis-fits?\u003cbr\u003eAfter a quarter of a century, quixotically tilting at windmills, Jim fights to survive in a system slowly destroying him. Three-Legged Bears, ten months in the life of Jim Andropoulos.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Victor C Bush","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183766847728,"sku":"2940152397192","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152397192_p0.jpg?v=1764020350","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152397192","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}