The children were apathetic, insular, illiterate, and completely oblivious to the world beyond the island - they didn't know what country they were in or who was the President. The elementary school was tyrannized over by a fierce black principal who felt no affinity with the islanders. Conroy took on a teaching position on an outpost island off the South Carolina coast inhabited mainly by poor blacks.
What distinguishes this account from all those others dealing with a year of teaching deprived youngsters is the high spirits, humor, and rawboned sincerity of the author, who throughout is not above a few self-deprecatory swipes at his bulldozer idealism or his compulsive determination to see likable qualities in everyone - even his enemies.
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