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This book is written with passion. Its story is told not through the author, but through the anecdotes, vignettes, and interviews provided by his students. A reader can tell what an inspired and inspiring teacher Mr. Michie really is. I would recommend this book to any new teachers or anyone interested in the problems of social justice and education in the US.

Gregory Michie's series of vignettes weaves an interesting story of his life as a young, inexperienced teacher in a poor and violent public school system. Although the book's time line is scattered, the reader can easily get a feel for the struggles of both Michie and his students. Set in the 1990's in the "Back of the Yard" Mexican-American neighborhood in inner city Chicago, we are introduced briefly, yet intensely, to many of Michie's students who struggle to stay in school. The pages fly by because they are rich with dialogue and stories from Michie's colorful students. If you was looking for an insightful book with a passionate look into the mind of some diversely opinionated adolescents, this is a great book for you.
As a teacher, I found Michie's book inspiring. Although the time line, at points, is difficult to follow, I sincerely enjoyed the honest approach of the book. As a result of reading this text, I decided to spend more one on one time with some of my students. Michie, with the help if a reverend-like teacher, starts to look past the "gangster" in order to find the student inside. I thought that maybe I had been judging some of my most challenging students too quickly. Have I been subconsciously treating the students who I know to be involved in more trouble differently? Have I been ignoring kids because I think that "they don't care anyway"? I tried to put my feeling aside and at least talk to some of the students whom I found troublesome. Every day last week, I invited a new kid to eat lunch with me. Even if I could not be the extra-curricular, field trip-loving Michie, I could at least try something! With a few, I found immediate results. It seemed to me, that their classroom antics were a cry for my attention, and an individual conference was the perfect medicine. One child in particular, asked to have lunch with me again, and I complied. When he began misbehaving in class later on that afternoon, all it took was a sideways glance of disappointment, and he was back on track. This small simple strategy may seem obvious to many (and it was to me, I just never did it!), but it really worked. I do not think that I would have made an effort to spend quality time with my "problem" children if I had not read this book.

I read this for Education class and it was very interesting. Most books i read are very boring, this one i actually read the whole thing with no skimming. Based on a teachers' experience at a Chicago middle school.

Greg Mitchie gives a very personal account about the compassion and hard work involved in teaching. There is a great balance between teacher and student reflections on school, in particular middle school, and life. It is a thoughtful and emotional insight into what being a teacher should be about - promoting student voice. Great read for anyone insterested in teaching at the secondary level, at the beginning of their teaching career or in an inner city.

As I read this book I can't help but think that Gregory Michie believes to be the "Great White Hope" for minorities. He lacks insight and knowledge of the inner cities. he has chosen to only see one side of the coin. He is typical of all those that want to excuse us minorities for doing poor in school and society. For becoming gang bangers and killing our own kind. Let's blame the system, the government because in doing so we set ourselves for failure, for how can we change something as the "system" and "the government" if it is out of our reach, according to this book and the author. As I read this book I see the lack of character and will of this so called good teacher.
I have had the unique experience of working with Chicago inner city kids too, but not in the classroom, but in a one to one basis for over 17 years and the conclusions reached by Gregory Michie are as erronous as the title of his book. You don't need to Hollar to be Heard. Kids today, especially inner city kids don't need more excuses for why they do bad in the classroom and in society. They need to be taught that every action leads to another action and at the end we have to take responsibilities for our own actions, no matter the system or government we are under.
Also I put into question the credebility of this author. There are many instances were he contradicts himself, for example, when he first writes how the Mexican kids in class cursed in Spanish, yet, he knew no Spanish, but he supposedly remembers vividly the words said by the students in Spanish. Also, at the beggining of the book with his whole mock trial of the students putting the food question in trial. Unless this kids spent countless hours learning court rules and court procedures, there is no way that things went as this author states.
Thus, I believe the book lacks credibility and that the book is just one more excuse for us minorities to do bad and for this self appointed "Great White Hope" to come in and supposedly fix things by blaming the system and government that supposeldy is out of reach of these "poor and innoncent" gang bangers.
i don't recomend this book, only if you want to have a good laugh at fiction and see the lack of character and weakness of a teacher. Who ever heard of a male teacher wanting to cry infront of a classroom, only in this book.
good material for a night around a camp fire and when the leaves are all used up, might as well put in this garbage in and used it to feed the fire, because that is all it does, feed the fire of minority insecurity and try to fire up the idea that minorites, without help from the government and the system that is against them, will ever make it. When in fact I know that minorites can make it and are not stupid or the poor people that Gregory Michie makes them out to be in his...book.

Michie's contribution to the world of teacher education and everyday schooling practices is a necessary text. Too many college/university schools of education hardly address schooling practices and the turmoil and push and pound endured by students of all colors. Reading HOLLER IF YOU HEAR ME (1999) can bring a moment of critical consciousness, a moment of self-actualization if the readers/educators are learners willing to dive into their interior Self.

Sandra Cisneros' "Foreword" to the ethnographic work lends an essential perspective and direction, and we learn about the humanity of a caring teacher, Mr. Gregory Michie. From one chapter to the next, readers not only meet the teacher, but they also meet his students and their turbulent and triumphant journeys in their search for a sense of self and mission. The portraits of the students could only have been documented by a teacher who listens, thinks, cares, and believes without judgement, without a punishing distance.

This an empowering work, and I recommend it for its depth and vision, for its pragmatic teaching practices, for its entrance into the classroom of our students in U.S. schools....