Up The Down Staircase

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Term Paper Title	Up The Down Staircase
# of Words	638
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.55

Up The Down Staircase

Introduction
In Up The Down Staircase, Bel Kaufman showed that a contemporary American teacher’s life is full of surprises. She described from the inside what goes on in a large metropolitan high school. She showed in a unique way what happens when a teacher’s ideals conflict with inadequate facilities and the lack of communication. Miss. Sylvia Barrett, an attractive, young women starts her job at a New York metropolitan high school as an English teacher. This novel follows through the first semester of Miss. Barrett’s teaching career. It gives insights from the students and the teachers minds, in their own voices, how the system works. Miss. Barrett was faced with conflicts all her days of teaching. From filling out Permanent Record Cards, to going to faculties conferences and giving mid-term exams she dealt with some unusual problems. One of her conflicts was when she was working at the Faculty Show. Unfortunately, she was backstage and the pagoda, or backdrop fell on her foot. She was kept in the hospital over Christmas break. Another was her constant battle with Administrator Assistant, James J. McHabe also known as “Admiral Ass” (page 56). He constantly accused Miss. Barrett of everything but teaching. Miss. Barrett’s true conflict occurred when she thought she was reaching out to one of her students, Joe Ferone, and ended up getting “reached” out to herself. Ferone was an outsider who had a bad attitude. He wanted to drop out and Miss. Barrett tried to give him several good reasons to stay. She felt “something in him that is worth saving” (page 242). In the end the two of them met after school. Miss. Barrett’s goal was she wanted to reach out to Ferone and show him that someone does care. She accomplished her goal and it frightened him to learn that people do care. After the meeting Miss. Barrett realized she was more...

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