There may be some truth to what she's saying. I was living in Buffalo, and my neighbor was a young inner-city school teacher. One day we were chatting, and she

There may be some truth to what she's saying. I was living in Buffalo, and my neighbor was a young inner-city school teacher. One day we were chatting, and she mentioned that she had been giving talks to soon-to-be teaching graduates, trying to convince them to come to inner-city schools to teach (apparently not many graduates wanted to teach in inner-city schools). That's pretty cool, I told her. So what's your secret? How does one become a good teacher in the inner-city schools? Well, she replied, it's quite easy really. You must realize that these people (her words) aren't used to doing homeworks or working hard. So I just let them slide when they don't do their homeworks or their assignments. They have a different culture, and I've adapted to it. My jaw hit the floor.