![]() ![]() She changes her mind, though, when she realizes that she has, indeed, touched the lives of her students. She decides to leave the public school (government-funded) system to work in a smaller private setting. The title of the book is taken from a memo telling her why a student was being punished: he had gone "up the down staircase". ![]() She quickly becomes discouraged during her first year of teaching, frustrated by bureaucracy, the indifference of her students, and the incompetence of many of her colleagues. Sylvia Barrett, an idealistic English teacher at an inner city high school, hopes to nurture her students' interest in classic literature (especially Chaucer and writing). ![]() In 1967 it was released as a film starring Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Ruth White, Jean Stapleton and Eileen Heckart. Up the Down Staircase is a novel written by Bel Kaufman, published in 1964, which spent 64 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. ![]()
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