A former news reporter starts a second career midlife:
teaching music, her favorite subject, in a big city school
during the early 21st century. Despite her upbeat passion
and honest sincerity, she finds herself confronting apathetic
students, hostile parents and few supportive administrators.
Rhythms & Blues: Teaching Music in the Public Schools is a
critical account of real-life experiences, some heartbreaking,
others frightening—leaving a dedicated teacher feeling
professionally unsuccessful and personally heartbroken. The
book offers a list of practical suggestions to save our public
schools which exist to educate our nation’s most vulnerable
young people, our future.