IV-"My Year as a Teacher" - Emily Sachar - Newsday and New York Newsday

Homework for the Teacher Visiting Kids' Families in a Search for Understanding

Byline: Emily Sachar; 1989-12-03; Newsday and New York Newsday; pages 6

Tags: Brooklyn, Flatbush, worked as a public school teacher

"October 16, 1989, I had phoned their parents. I had scoured their records. And I had read their essays. But in my year as an eighth grade math teacher at Walt Whitman Intermediate School, there was one line I did not cross with my students. I did not go to their homes. . . . "

Description:Chapter Six in Emily Sachar's eight-part series about her year in Flatbush teaching eighth grad math in the New York City public school system.