The School from Hell
- ISBN-10
- 1683331095
- ISBN-13
- 9781683331094
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 228
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-12-27
- Publisher
- Tate Publishing & Enterprises
- Author
- Larry Higdon
Description
The School from Hell explores the deterioration of public education through the eyes of an elementary school counselor. Katy Nguyen, riffed from her job at an affluent charter school, goes to work at Horseshoe Farms Elementary School in the north Georgia mountains. She finds a building with busted out windows, leaky pipes, puddles of water on the floors, an infestation of rats, plumbing problems, and a nonfunctioning heating and air-conditioning system. Her principal cares about nothing except standardized test scores. The parents with whom she meets range from narrow-minded to poignant to wildly eccentric. Katy also has personal demons to battle, including her own bipolar condition and her daughter's drug addiction. At times her plight seems so overwhelming that she considers suicide. Throughout the school year, Katy counts the days until she will be able to transfer to another school. As a result of her counseling duties, however, she meets a first grade girl named Carly. She learns from this child, who is determined to overcome all of her considerable obstacles. Life keeps knocking Carly down, but the child keeps getting back up. Her interactions with Carly lead Katy to a new and life changing perspective. "
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