A mash-up of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman, the author (a former teacher) attempts to lay bare the dystopian bureaucratic nightmare enveloping the public school system in the US in an at-times humorous and at-times poignant fashion. Niles is a idealistic new teacher entering into a system that seems made to wreck him. He meets many intriguing people along the way, but he finds that not everyone seems to have the best interests of the students in mind.
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