"I believe in creating an education environment that will captivate, inspire, and model to students the benefits of a good education" - Jason

"A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people". - Frederick Douglass.

As a middle school, inner-city teacher, the greatest task of any teacher is getting the students to want to learn. The school is dilapidated, classes are over crowded ( I avg 30 students per class) and under funded.

Join me in my misadventures in trying to create engaging lessons, at a county/school, where poverty meets ambition.

"You try to plant somethin in the conrete, y'knowhatImean?If it GROW, and the and the rose petal got all kind ofScratches and marks, you not gon' say, "Damn, look atAll the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from concrete"You gon' be like, "Damn! A rose grew from the concrete?!"Same thing with me, y'knahmean? I grew out of all of thisInstead of sayin, "Damn, he did this, he did this,"Just be like, "DAMN! He grew out of that? He came out of that?"That's what they should say, y'knowhatImean?All the trouble to survive and make good out of the dirty, nastyY'knowhahatImean unbelievable lifestyle they gave meI'm just tryin to make somethin.." -2Pac

"I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it. " - Morpheus