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A young black man who comes from a rich family, after receiving his master’s degree in English and finished working at a inner city youth center, he decided that he wanted to go back home to teach high school English. He gets a job teaching at the worst high school in Gary, Indiana, which is West Side High School.
West Side High School is the worst school in Gary, Indiana. West Side has the lowest tests scores and highest dropout rate. Majority of the teachers do not care about if the students at West Side get an education or not because of they are here for the paycheck. So, this young black man decides to take this job because he feels he can make a difference in the lives of his junior English class like a girl who is an honor student but also is a single parent to an infant, a basketball player who has a chance to make it to the NBA after high school, and a student who has a drug addict mother trying to take care of himself and his mother.
The man’s mother disagrees with him working at this school and feels that he can do better working a “better” paying job. She feel that he cannot change the lives of these students because she of their environment. She feel that it is up to them to get out of poverty and make a “better” lives for themselves instead of her son going into that community. But he disagrees with his mother and works at West Side High where he finds love in the school’s secretary, who recently divorced her abusive husband of 10 years.
