Holler if You Hear Me by Gregory Book Review

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Holler if You Hear Me by Gregory Michie

According to teacher Gregory Michie, the portrayal of urban schools in the popular media tends to have the character of either two, polarized extremes: "On one hand are the horror stories... On the other hand is the occasional account of the miracle worker" (Michie 2009: xxi). Michie's account entitled Holler if you hear me of his own experiences is Michie's attempt to offer a more balanced perspective. Michie was a public school teacher in a largely nonwhite, inner city Chicago school. He chronicles his own journey in his book, as well as those of some representative students in a series of profiles that unfold in both the first and third person.

What is particularly moving about Michie's account is his willingness to follow up with some of his students, to determine how their education continues to affect them. One boy, who seemed like a tough teenager at age twelve, at age seventeen is full of rage and withdrawn as an adolescent."As a sixth grader, Hector had seemed so grown up to me much of the time. Now, as a 17-year-old, he seems unprepared to give way to adulthood" (Michie 2009: 37). Michie is honest about his difficulties as a teacher, noting how every day is a fight against distractions to learning, spanning from children wrangling for attention, to difficult home environments that take children's focus away from their schooling, to the pull of illegal activities and negative peer influences.

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Michie grew up in an environment far different from that of his students' but he tries to view their situation with compassion. Michie says that the segregation he witnesses in the South Side of Chicago is worse than anything he had ever seen growing up in the South. Michie wrote plays as a teen; when Michie first began teaching, he was hired as a day-to-day substitute for a reading lab class where most of the students answered with "nothing" when asked what they enjoyed reading (Michie 2009: 5).

Michie initially experienced a profound culture clash between himself and his students. He wanted to be a kind, sensitive teacher who stimulated his student's interest….....

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