Mr. Brad Cohen's Front Of The Class

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Teachers should not only teach their students the subject; but also the direction to the right way of living. It is the teacher’s duty to mentor, motivate, and inspire all of their students. Teachers shall teach and teachers shall have passion towards their job. If there is no passion; do not expect anything other than drab eyes wandering around the classroom. Mr. Brad Cohen is all the above, and even teachers can learn a couple new lessons from him. Brad Cohen, with his aspiring work, “Front of The Class”, battles employment discrimination on disability. Employment discrimination takes off the masks of good nature and in place, put-on masks of acidic opinion. Cohen gets deep judgement, to this day, about being himself. “You can’t judge a …show more content…

Brad Cohen gets judged everywhere he goes and he isn’t always so tough with the situation. ”Everyone, regardless of ability or disability, has strengths and weaknesses. Know what you are. Build on your strengths and find a way around your weaknesses” (Cohen 23). At first, Brad focuses on his strengths. Then, as each interview comes and goes, his strengths turn into the focus of his weaknesses. Brad gets finished with his last interview of the day and he gets in his car. He starts letting tears down freely and getting in a rampage with himself. Brad starts to blame himself and loathing the thought of his disability makes everyone look at him differently. Cohen starts to notice that he has been on a boat in the middle of isolation and all along no one ever saw him as a person, the only thing they saw when they looked at him was his Tourette’s. The only true person that cared was his mother. Brad finally realized that he should not back down and he owes it to everyone with disabilities and to himself to become a teacher he never …show more content…

“A positive outlook breeds success, just as a negative outlook breeds failure” (Cohen 152). As Brad was moping around; he didn’t get nothing good done and nowhere near his goal. Negative outlooks started a blizzard within his thoughts. But as he built up his strengths, he also built up his positive attitude. Soon, he realizes that the way a person looks at a situation, that that’s the way the snow boots will be tied. As Mr. Cohen develops a positive mindset on his situation, he himself, puts on a mask of illustration to the world, and most importantly, to the students of the

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