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A review by wildflowerz76
Adequate Yearly Progress by Roxanna Elden
2.0
I received a digital ARC of this title from Edelweiss for an honest review.
The faculty at a high school in a large city in Texas has always gotten by pretty well. But when a new superintendent is named, it throws everyone's life into havoc. There's the spoken word artist English teacher, the science teacher that's always ignored all those directives to teach test taking, the second year history teacher dying to do everything perfectly for her students and the math teacher who will follow every rule perfectly and judge all the other teachers who don't.
Teachers in the public school system will undoubtedly find much content that is familiar here in this book. You'll find yourself nodding along as you read.
However. While even as someone who never has been, nor never will be a teacher, I can see the similarities with our public school system, it still doesn't hide the fact that this book really has no plot. Nothing much actually happens in this book and while the blurbs for this call it “laugh-out-loud funny satire” (Forbes), I found it to be decidedly unfunny. Most of the teachers and administration here were awful.
The faculty at a high school in a large city in Texas has always gotten by pretty well. But when a new superintendent is named, it throws everyone's life into havoc. There's the spoken word artist English teacher, the science teacher that's always ignored all those directives to teach test taking, the second year history teacher dying to do everything perfectly for her students and the math teacher who will follow every rule perfectly and judge all the other teachers who don't.
Teachers in the public school system will undoubtedly find much content that is familiar here in this book. You'll find yourself nodding along as you read.
However. While even as someone who never has been, nor never will be a teacher, I can see the similarities with our public school system, it still doesn't hide the fact that this book really has no plot. Nothing much actually happens in this book and while the blurbs for this call it “laugh-out-loud funny satire” (Forbes), I found it to be decidedly unfunny. Most of the teachers and administration here were awful.