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Christina Asquith reveals a moving firsthand bank account of her calendar year teaching in another of Philadelphia's worst colleges. Told with eye-catching humor and honesty, her story starts when the School Region of Philadelphia, in eager need of 1 1,500 new instructors, instituted an insurance plan of employing "emergency qualified" teachers. Asquith, then a 25-year-old reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, became a member of their untrained ranks. More challenging than her classroom in the crime-infested neighborhood known as "the Badlands" are the trials she confronted outside, including a corrupt principal, the politics that prevented a million-dollar offer from attaining her students, and the administration's shocking insistence that instructors maintain the appearance of success when confronted with utter beat - even if this means falsifying test scores. Her story will inspire, teach, and entertain.
