To say that Danza had his work cut out for him would be an understatement. Some kids had stable, supportive families, some kids were being bounced from foster home to foster home.
Some kids were motivated and hard-working, others saw school as an imposition on their lives. It’s a huge public school – about 3,600 students – and is made up of kids from radically diverse backgrounds. Not just because the business of running a reality show would interfere with the class, or because they take work away from actors like my brother, but because I think reality shows are a scourge upon modern television.Īfter going through training and orientation, Danza was put in charge of a double-period English class in Northeast High School in Philadelphia. On top of that, he had been convinced to do it as part of an A&E reality show – something I certainly don’t approve of. He was, after all, coming to it from a very different background than most teachers, and with a different set of perspectives. Being a teacher myself, I was interested to see what his impressions were. That might not be a bad thing.Anyway, Danza kind of slipped out of my cultural viewfinder for a long while, so I was surprised to hear that he had not only written a book, but had done a stint as a teacher in a Philadelphia high school.
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