My Posse Don't Do Homework

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Whether it has to do with something they were learning in school or something that they could use socially. We have seen such students being verbally abused, "punished", failed, and tormented, all in a vain attempt to discipline and reform. The endless financial struggles to meet the needs of students and the financial stress teachers take upon themselves. Johnson uses the same kind of repetition in describing Troy Jones, a student with lightning bolts “shooting across his head” (77).

Some of the thins LouAnne Johnson does is like she wrote the book herself and all of these happened to her in her career.It really inspires you if you work with students, to focus on the ones you do help, and not be discouraged by the ones you cannot save. But they feel constrained by the endless rules (many understandable) that hinder our education system. I was taken aback when Miss Johnson kissed a sleeping student on the cheek to wake him up and continued throughout her narrative to talk about how she would threaten to “kick her student’s asses”.

Critical reviews were mixed, with some critics praising Pfeiffer's performance but criticizing the screenplay as contrived and full of stereotypes. S. Navy journalist, Marine Corps officer, high school teacher, and the author of The New York Times bestseller Dangerous Minds. Kevin McManus of The Washington Post also praised the acting, though he wrote that the film "merits only a C", in part because of the script's lack of subtlety and the saccharine lines given to the students. LouAnne Johnson is a former Marine Corps Officer and a journalist in the US Navy who restarted her career as an English teacher, aspiring to teach at a University. This book was just up my street for any educators who don't believe that one size fits all you'll enjoy this read immensely and be revitalised by it.Though he said Pfeiffer's acting made the film "fairly entertaining", Terrence Rafferty of The New Yorker criticized the film's screenplay and the sentimental ending, which he said gives Pfeiffer's character an unnecessary halo. If an adolescent grows up in an atmosphere that demeans their self-respect and motivation, corrodes their perception of the world, and demoralizes their spirit, why would they care about a homework in class?

Humor tempers Johnson's gritty portrayal of her battle to keep her students from slipping through bureaucratic cracks. Reading about these adolescent students with potential, but misguided by their surrounding and lack of appreciation slowly taking to studying, working hard to achieve those very things that society had assumed they would never be able to acquire was fascinating indeed. A native of rural northwestern Pennsylvania, LouAnne served nine years on active military duty first as an enlisted journalist in the Navy and later as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps where she earned awards for her work as a journalist and radio-tv broadcaster.Johnson wrote about her experience of the service in her 1986 book Making Waves: A Woman in This Man's Navy. She explains how each student acts in all of her classes and how she helps the students is amazing too. My Posse Don’t Do Homework (reprinted as Dangerous Minds) by LouAnne Johnson (1992) is a non-fiction book which considers a wide array of adolescent issues through the experiences of the main character and author, LouAnne Johnson.