Current Read

I just finished a book called Taught By America. It is the story of one corps member's experience during her two years in Compton teaching second grade. 

It was pretty ridiculous and I found myself sobbing at some parts and laughing at others. This is the second time I've tried to read a book like this, the last one being "the relentless pursuit." I didn't finish that one because it freaked me out too much and I was still in the process of applying. 

I wasn't going to finish this one either, because i figured I'm living this right now- why put myself through someone else's struggle too. 

The book was inspiring yet a hard harsh reality as well. 

I wanted to be left with hope when I finished the book. 

Instead I was left with a chapter of her going back to Compton seven years later to find her students and share her book with them. 

After extensive searching, she was able to find 2 of her students. 2. Lack of records and students moving schools and districts made it impossible for her to find them. 

With the two she found, one of them talked with her briefly. He was a freshman now and when she asked him what he was doing in class right now, he responded with word searches. Word searches on airplanes...in English class. Then he went back to class. 

When the second student was called down to the office, he didn't even remember her. He asked the guidance counselor, who had called him down to her office, if he could go back to class. 

It hurt to read.