Snapshots Of An Inner City School: Ten Years in the Life of an American Teacher

Driving down the alley between the Continuous Learning Center (CLC) and the Laundromat, I was filled with excitement and trepidation. I wondered if my twelve years of experience had prepared me for the challenges of working at an alternative school? Would these high school inner city kids accept a middle class teacher with an elementary school background? Well whatever the outcome, I knew that my destiny was here. I first walked down the halls of CLC 14 years earlier. As a part of my training for an undergraduate degree in special education, I was required to observe emotionally handicapped and socially maladjusted students at this inner city school.