I Choose To Stay: A Black Teacher Refuses To Desert The Inner-city

The challenges of working in an urban school are not for every teacher. Some get burnt out fast. Some lose sight of why they started teaching in the first place. Some find their calling in other neighborhoods...with other kids. But not Salome Thomas-El. A Teacher at Roberts Vaux Middle School in Philadelphia''s inner city, he chose to stay. Gripping, poignant, and homest, this is his blistering re...