Three-Legged Bears (ePub)
Baxter is an emotionally bankrupt high school where truth and honesty have lost the battle against lies and political posturing. Death, deceit, murder, suicide -plagues of the twentieth century- erode and chip away at Jim as he tries...
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Three-Legged Bears
Baxter is an emotionally bankrupt high school where truth and honesty have lost the battle against lies and political posturing. Death, deceit, murder, suicide -plagues of the twentieth century- erode and chip away at Jim as he tries to put meaning into his life. A short, balding, out of shape teacher who drinks too much just wants to teach. "I want to tell kids stuff, you know?"
During a visit to the zoo with his girlfriend, they watch the antics of a three-legged bear. The bear, he suddenly realizes, is Baxter. The school, and everyone associated with the system is handicapped -crippled by lack of enthusiasm, imagination and humanity.
His only solace comes from teaching a group of mis-fits, a group of kids intellectually deprived and emotionally handicapped. These kids, so labeled by a society crippled by rules and convention, are the real people, a true cross-section of humanity. They are his awakening. "Are schools failing?" he asks. Does the system fulfill its obligations? Who, in fact, are the mis-fits?
After a quarter of a century, quixotically tilting at windmills, Jim fights to survive in a system slowly destroying him. Three-Legged Bears, ten months in the life of Jim Andropoulos.
artist on an archeologist dig, in Amman, Jordan. I've pulled weeds in a golf course
(The only job I have ever quit!), dock worker, bus-boy, waiter, and ditch digger for a
railway. I was also the first in my family to finish high school.
While attending night school for nine years in pursuit of a Fine Arts degree, followed
by graduate courses in administration, I simultaneously taught in both elementary
and high schools which included working with adult and Aboriginal students in both
English and French.
These skills and experiences provide ample material that drive my imagination to
weave intricate and gripping mystery novels.
- Autor: Victor C Bush
- 2015, Englisch
- Verlag: Victor C Bush
- ISBN-10: 0994084714
- ISBN-13: 9780994084712
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.10.2015
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- Grösse: 0.36 MB
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