A Lamb to the Slaughter

There Are Few Places As Perfectly Suited To Crush Idealism And Hope As A High School Classroom. Yet Every Year When September Rolls Around Another Young Graduate Will Face A Class Of Ninth Graders Confident That She Can Tame The Beast. . Ms. Annette Kalin A Young Teacher Leaves The Relative Security Of Her Midwestern Community To Take On The Challenge Of Teaching In New York City. From Day One A Student Named Leon Challenges Her For Control Of The Class. Day After Day She Comes To School Armed With A Lesson Plan Hoping To Make A Breakthrough But Each Day Her Hopes Are Dashed By A Class That Has Mastered The Art Of The Lesson Kill. . The End Of The Semester Approaches And Almost All The Students Are Failing. Annette Clings To The Naive Belief That By Making A Home Visit To Talk With LeonS Mom Who Never Made The Scheduled Parent-Teacher Conference She Could Change The Dynamic In Her Favor. Instead She Walks Into A Trap With Tragic Consequences.