Tony Danza, who has a BA in education, has been teaching English to Philadelphia 10th Graders in front of TV cameras.
26 students.
Hah!
Hah is right! Give him six full classes (with two or three different preps), lunchroom monitoring duty, morning and afternoon tutorials, and a club or two to sponsor. Plus make him serve on some BS teacher committee dreamed up by an administrator. Then he’ll start to have an idea of what teaching is like.
He doesn’t teach a full load? Why not?
Hey oh. Oh hey. Who would teach a full load if they didn’t have to?
Cuz he’s a pussy?
Danza’s NO PUSSY!
Just another brick in the wall of “anyone can be a teacher.”
Hey, Danza! Leave them kids alone.
(BTW, who’s going to teach *him *English?)
The article notes that he’s going to help out in the drama department, which is probably the single thing he’s best qualified to do.
I assume he’s not being paid by the district, and the district is perfectly happy to get another section of English taught for free.
I don’t know. Were I a student, I don’t think I’d be as comfortable discussing literature in front of cameras. There’s probably an easy opt-out available, and lots of stage mothers fighting to get their kids into the class.
EDIT: On reading the comments on the articles, it may be that this is an after-school event that the kids have to audition to get into.
There’s one instance that I know of where a celebrity taught school for a year, apparently full-time. This is not one of those cases of a celebrity working at various jobs before they became famous. This is the celebrity actually going away from their field at the height of their fame to teach as a regular job. And there was no reality show filming it (although those didn’t exist yet anyway):
After Simon and Garfunkel quit performing together in 1970 (when they were famous and, I presume, didn’t need any extra money), Garfunkel apparently couldn’t figure out what to do with the rest of his life. He decided to take a job teaching math at a private high school. He already had a masters in math and a teaching certificate.
I think I read that there will be another teacher in the room with him. Perhaps he’s not certified in the state in which he is teaching. I hope I’m wrong and he’s doing it himself.
Did one of the guys from Men at Work teach physics in his post-band/pre-reunion period?
I don’t know, Mr. Miskatonic. Do you have any citation for that?
So my old nemesis is teaching students in Philadelphia now, eh? Now I know where he is, and soon my revenge will be complete.
Gonna show him who’s the boss, eh?
Since he was always called Tony in his shows because he allegedly couldn’t remember his character names, would he do the same with his drama students?
Romeo and Julliet could be Hector and Kayla, Sherlock Holmes could be Fred Holmes, and Walter Mitty could be Pete Mitty.
Make him Moan-a.