teachers are bad until proven good. and it s very easy to be proven bad. you came from a background of being a former corporate executive before teaching. you say you still have do you think you had enough time in the barrel to come away with an accurate perception of what it s like to be a teacher if you were only there roughly a year? i was there five months. because it looked like i wasn t going to survive. okay? what happened was i was a m magazine editor and executive for many years. i decided to become a teacher because i wanted to make a difference. i spent a year in a masters programming and teaching and working with other teachers and learning how to do it. i went into the south bronx and suddenly i was a bad teacher. the rule i learned was don t let management get involved. what they don t do anything a hands-off approach. they don t want you to disturb them. management wants you to handle everything. you have kids with behavior problems. kids with learning prob