When I was teaching, we 'd have poets come in to work with the hs students. then I don't know what happened to that program, but it stopped. The principal at Brooklyn Tech wanted the empahsis on math and sciences and not humanities. So the course that two of us taught in our separate classes on cinema and Literature....an elective for seniors....was canned. We pleaded with him to visit our classes and see for himself the academic content.....we weren't just showing movies as an easy way for a paycheck and kill time. But the humanities for kids at this school....simply not important.
When I was teaching, we 'd have poets come in to work with the hs students. then I don't know what happened to that program, but it stopped. The principal at Brooklyn Tech wanted the empahsis on math and sciences and not humanities. So the course that two of us taught in our separate classes on cinema and Literature....an elective for seniors....was canned. We pleaded with him to visit our classes and see for himself the academic content.....we weren't just showing movies as an easy way for a paycheck and kill time. But the humanities for kids at this school....simply not important.