Tony Danza’s reality TV show “Teach” debuts tonight

    The first episode of Tony Danza’s new A&E reality show set in Philadelphia’s largest high school debuts tonight.
    “Teach” features Tony Danza at work at Northeast High – a reality t-v gig the school’s principal, Linda Carroll, says she was initially – nervous about.

    The first episode of Tony Danza’s new A&E reality show set in Philadelphia’s largest high school debuts tonight.

    “Teach” features Tony Danza at work at Northeast High – a reality TV gig the school’s principal, Linda Carroll, says she was initially – nervous about.

    “When you hear someone say there’s an actor who’d like to come to your school and teach English, you ask yourself, why?  So they gave me a couple of reasons: it was something he always wanted to do, and he was inspired by a speech by Obama, and even after hearing that you’re still going to be a little bit leery  because this is one of the toughest professions that you can actually venture into.”

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    Carroll says Danza prepared lesson plans and attended planning and teaching strategy meetings just like other teachers.

    She hopes the show will give viewers a glimpse into what really happens inside schools – beyond the negatives that often make the headlines.

    Carroll says she doesn’t know if Danza’s coming back to teach another class.

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