From Amazon.co.uk:
Part of the "NFT/BFI Film Classics" series, this is the story of life in a New York slum school, where young hoodlums develop their crude ways, and their teachers fight a vain and losing battle to bring a semblance of decency and honesty into their lives.

Taken to Meetup

Release #8 for the 2014 Movie Books Challenge.
Release #25 for the 2014 4 Elements Challenge.

Picked up at Bookcrossing meetup.

The book was published in the 1950s and is about a high school teacher trying to teach kids in a vocational high school who have an IQ only in the double digits, aren't interested in learning anything and are aggressive and violent.

I didn't think much of the author's (typically 1950s?) attitude towards women, talking about sexual assault as if it's some sort of joke and blaming it on the women.

Caught at Meetup. It will be a while before I get to it, but it looks interesting.

Enjoyed and was frustrated by it. Written in the 50s, some of the attitudes clash with today's values, but it was interesting nonetheless. As some of the things are being done you are thinking "No, don't do that". Still, there are moving moments but overall everybody just seems to be trying to survive.