Great stand up comic, Dennis Wolfberg had a routine about being a teacher in the South Bronx . . .

The South Bronx . . . You know the South Bronx. A community that socioeconomically ranks under Calcuta. People from India would say, South Bronx! What a hellhole! They gave me the "slow" class six years in a row. Slow . . I considered them stationary." The school newspaper had an obituary column. I would assign compositions on What I want to be if I grow up."