I read in today’s  Parade Sunday Magazine that actor, Tony Danza is teaching high school English in Philadelphia.  Here is a news story from a TV station in Philly http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=d69514f1-c56d-4a83-8df8-0590b957070e

“After more than 30 years in entertainment as an actor, talk show host, Broadway star, cookbook author, pro boxer and song and dance man, Tony Danza faces his toughest audience to date – high school students. Long before the launch of Danza’s showbiz career, he hoped to be a teacher and even earned a degree in history to pursue that dream.”

Link to the show on A & E TV : http://www.aetv.com/teach-tony-danza/

About the SHOW: Long before his iconic acting career, which includes roles in “Taxi” and “Who’s The Boss,” Tony Danza received a degree in History Education. During the 2009-2010 school year, he took on his most challenging and rewarding role yet as he stepped into the classroom as a full-time teacher at Philadelphia’s Northeast High School. “Teach Tony Danza” follows the first year-teacher as he instructs a 10th-grade English class with 26 students.

The show airs beginning October 1 at 8:00 central time on A & E TV.

OK, I am curious. Guess I will be watching to see how it goes.  I applaud him, but, I really think we need to put congressmen and senators in this position and then have conversations about education and teaching. Bet it would be a very different conversation if they had to spend a week or two doing what teachers do every day.  By the way, they have to live on what teachers make during that time too!!  I wonder if Tony did?

Sure wish A&E TV had an iPad App like ABC does!!

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