Author : Jim Kohl
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595167918
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)
Book Synopsis Noble Poverty by : Jim Kohl
Download or read book Noble Poverty written by Jim Kohl and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12-20 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I used to hate it when my teachers complained about money. Now I see why they did.”—Jim Kohl. Jim Kohl didn’t always know what he wanted to do, but ever since he ‘found himself’ he wanted to teach. He never wanted to be part of corporate life, he wanted to “be there for the kids” and help them to learn to think for themselves. He took a job at an inner city school teaching seventh-grade English, and he was always happy standing in front of his students in Room 5. Five years into teaching, Jim came to the sad realization that a teacher’s salary was not going to support his family of five in California’s “Silicon Valley,” one of the most expensive housing areas in the country. Jim was faced with one of the toughest decisions of his life. He was forced to choose between the job he was born to do and the family that he loved. Join Jim for an insider’s look into California’s public school system. Laugh along with him and the wonderful children he had the opportunity to work with. See first hand the poverty experienced by the practitioners of our most noble profession.