Schooled

Schooled by Anisha Lakhani is a cleverly written book with an interesting topic. This story is about an idealistic first year teacher, Anna, who has plans to change the lives of her students through a love of learning and literature. Her dreams are quickly squashed when she begins teaching in a private school on Manhattans Upper East Side. Anna's ideas of education are vastly different than the ideas of this school environment, she is praised and encouraged when she doesn't teach and gives no assignments and reprimanded by administration and parents when she expects anything productive from her students. She is also having little success financially as a teacher and as a way out she is swept into the world of tutoring students from other private schools. Through this tutoring experience she is shown the other side of her students lives.
I highly recommend this book- I think the author used a great balance of humor, sarcasm and drama to keep the reader interested.