Goodbye, Mr. Fitz: A New Teacher Challenges the Limits on His Students' Creativity and Takes on Their School‪.‬

It should be obvious to me that this isn't going to work. I've always had problems with authority figures. And I'm certainly no good at pretending to be one. My struggles with authority are a prime reason for my graduating from college thirty years behind schedule. But in May 2004 I finally succeed in earning a bachelor's degree in print journalism from Jacksonville University in Florida. Though facing a limited, low-paying market for professional writers, I luckily stumble on an opening for a creative writing teacher at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville. My schoolteacher friends swear it's a plum gig: D.A. is the most progressive school in the Duval County school system, plus it's a magnet school--students have to really work to get in and there are few discipline problems because they want to be there.