Next Section Glossary Previous Section The Unteachables Summary How To Cite in MLA Format Sexton, Timothy. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. And Kiana, the overachiever who is only stuck in Room 117 because, well, that’s American school bureaucracy at work. Aldo, the fiery carrot-top badly in need of anger management. Barnstorm, who has become the most useless thing in any American school: the injured athlete who can’t play. That weird kid Mateo who is so lost in movies and TV shows that he can’t help but compare everybody in real life to some character in reel life (Mr.

Elaine, who, lest she become the target of teasing for her weight, finds it best to just keep quiet and to herself and therefore hides the fact that she may well be the brightest kid in school. The artistic Raheem who has a habit of falling asleep during class, the cause of which is not exactly pursued with diligence. This year that includes Parker whose dyslexia has targeted him as unteachable. It is more familiarly known as the classroom of the unteachables. Room 117 is home to what is officially designated the Self-Contained Special Eighth-Grade Class. His monomaniacal pursuit of destroying what is left of Kermit’s career carries all the gravity of Ahab’s pursuit of the white whale in that cavernously empty mind. Thaddeus is referred to earlier in the text by one of the students as a dictatorial legend in his own mind. Thaddeus is the Superintendent of schools in the district who wears three-thousand-dollar tailored suits and does not care that a prepubescent punk is the villain of the cheating scandal and not Mr. The fact that it is well-known and widely recognized that Kermit was just as much a victim of Jake’s as anyone else hardly seems to have mattered as far as the rest of the teacher’s career proceeded. Jake Terranova was a 12-year-old student of Kermit’s in 1992 when the cheating scandal exploded and ruined the teacher’s career. The negative attention has served to sap the idealistic ambition with which he embarked upon teaching and has transformed him into just another burnt-out robot showing up for the paycheck and pension.

Kermit’s teaching career, but also undermined it.

A cheating scandal from way back has not only hung over Mr. The teacher of the unteachables has lived much of his career under a cloud of scandal. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.

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