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Title: Welcome To Our World : Realities of High School Students by Robert N. Gilbert, Mike Robins ISBN: 0-8039-6680-6 Publisher: Corwin Press Pub. Date: 08 January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Wake Up Administrators, Teachers, Parents!!!
Comment: "Welcome To Our World" tells us that students really DO want to be in School. But they want adults to be honest and relevant. "Don't waste our time! We have other things to do, also." "Don't insult our intelligence. We can do the Hard Math, reason the Tough Issues." "Respect our individuality." These are the issues and more, written by high school students who were fortunate enough to have Robert Gilbert as their teacher. Wonderful illustrations by Mike Robins.

Rating: 5
Summary: A great book for anyone who went to high school.
Comment: This book combines insightful ideas about high school students' experiences with riveting first-hand accounts of their daily struggles. The stories are personal, yet universal. It would be a great read for anyone with a high school student in their lives, teachers, future educators, or anyone who went to high school. Robins' writing is articulate and complex, yet easily understandable. Get this book!

Rating: 5
Summary: Required reading for high school educators
Comment: I found this book to be a fascinating sociological study of a typical suburban high school class. Of the 55 or so vignettes written by the students themselves, there were several that I was familiar with, including the student who exposes his school's National Honor Society to be nothing more than a resume-builder for athletes and the kids of rah-rah parents, and the black student who struggles to maintain his identity in a nearly all-white high school. However, there were many vignettes that shocked and angered me, including the student honors student who watches his accelerated curriculum being dismantled so that more funds can be channeled into athletics, and the student whose school and home life is disrupted by a teenage stalker. I hope that this book someday becomes required reading for all high school educators, because it would enlighten them as to the social pressures that suburban teenagers face in 1998, regardless of whether those teenagers are found in remedial, regular, or accelerated classes. I hope that the book gives educators a greater sensitivity to such students, and encourages them to adjust their lesson plans and administrative structures accordingly. It is also very refreshing to see a sociological study of a high school class from the students' perspective, rather than an outsider with a Ph.D. Educators, buy and read this book; you may never teach the same again.