Mr R Kent Tipton

Pencil Shavings Mr R Kent Tipton

This volume contains unvarnished tales from various classrooms that were part of the author's life, both as a student and as a teacher. They are engaging, humorous, and most of all, the stories are all true, even though some may strain the reader's capacity to believe. How the author "fell" into teaching in a large metropolitan school district begins this book, and how that first year of teaching a group of children, who had driven out a half-dozen teachers before him, changed his life. The book begins with this class of recalcitrant students and ends here, but between these two chapters are many other stories you will not want to miss, including the day FBI agents entered the author's high school to investigate a crime; junior high school pranks; making a hair pizza for a teacher in high school; the challenges of teaching a cluster of rustic farm boys how to read a tape measure; and much, much more.