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Literally Unbelievable: Stories from an East Oakland Classroom Paperback – September 14, 2016
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- Print length174 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 14, 2016
- Dimensions6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101535582553
- ISBN-13978-1535582551
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- Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (September 14, 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 174 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1535582553
- ISBN-13 : 978-1535582551
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,865,659 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #67,666 in Schools & Teaching (Books)
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Bronwyn Harris began her teaching career in East Oakland in January 2000, teaching first-graders who had already gone through one teacher and six substitutes during that school year. In the first five minutes of teaching, one student threw a book at her head and she realized she had no set curriculum with which to teach them. In addition, she was a “roving teacher,” meaning that she moved classrooms every three weeks.
Teaching at this school did not get easier as she transitioned into teaching third grade, but the students were incredible: creative, thoughtful, loving, angry, at-risk, misunderstood, valuable, and overlooked. After eight principals in less than eight years, Harris had to face the fact that she couldn’t keep working in such an environment and left the school district, but has stayed in touch with many of her students.
During her time teaching, Harris would tell many of her middle-class white friends about what was going on at her school, and found that many of them didn’t believe her, which is how the title of the book came to be. This also strengthened her resolve to write down the true stories so that people would know this side of life in the Bay Area.
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Generally, I have an incredibly difficult time reading nonfiction. It's just not something that has ever appealed to me and I find the writing style of most authors in this area to be dry. In this case, though, Bronwyn Harris presents a reality that is often overlooked in a manner that is both easy to read and incredibly effective. I could see some of these things playing out almost as if I'd been in the room to witness them. Having worked for several years in a school in a similar area to the one Ms. Harris taught in probably makes it far easier for me to believe and understand the realities she presents throughout this book. That might not be the case for every read and I imagine there will be a great many people who pick this book up and are shocked to the point that they flat out don't believe these very true stories. The are true, though, and stories like them are all too true in other parts of the country. As a society, so many people work very hard to help underprivileged children in other countries. That's great, of course, but it's entirely too easy to overlook the great need of so very many of the children right here in our country.
As a parent and a former educator, I am both appalled and utterly moved by what these children endured on a daily basis. I am infuriated by the way that our education system has and continues to fail to meet the needs of students in so many ways. I am also touched and impressed by the effort that those teachers, the few and far between who stick it out with the children others overlook, and really give them the things that others can't or won't. This book prompted so many heavily emotional reactions from me that I really can't begin to explain them all. I'm begging you, though, even if you hate nonfiction, even if you are sure that racism is dead and gone and that equality operates across the board in our country, please read this. Yes, you might be offended. Yes, you might be angry. Good! Get angry! Be offended by the reality that our world doesn't look the same from every set of eyes. Then get up and help do something about it.
(My rating system, within the genre of this book
5=Highly recommended, will re-read
4=Recommended
3=good read, minor flaws
2=ho hum, or major flaws
1=something really wrong with this)
Changing the world is not without sacrifice and her efforts encourages me to do the best I can to change my world, one person at a time.

