#88621286 / gettyimages.com If he's still there, Mr. Bloom must be having a challenging time teaching world history and politics to his high school students. How do you talk to students about ISIS or ISIL, whatever name that's being used these days, especially when you're teaching in a school that has already raised a homegrown terrorist -- a white kid, no less? Mr. Bloom was the best teacher the kids had. Marissa hated high school, but she loved Mr. Bloom. Ditto Stef and Nick. That's because Mr. Bloom was a straight shooter, a teacher who was unafraid to tell it like it was. He'd been an English as a second language teacher in Korea. He smoked pot. He drank gallons of hooch on his off hours. That gave Mr. Bloom cred. I had a teacher like that in high school, Ralph Eising, who wasn't afraid to teach students about the real world. In Grade 12, Ralph gave us a book of essays to help us understand the curse of being aboriginal in this damn...
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