It has been hard on Frey so far, but she is hanging in there.
"It's been extremely difficult because right now I have to concentrate on behavior problems," she says. "As an inexperienced teacher it's hard to quell."
Kids talk in class and refuse to focus, while Frey is stuck with a curriculum that assumes all of her students can read.
She admits the circumstances are more frustrating than she imagined.
"People go in with a rosy picture of it, but they tend to forget that you're dealing with a very real situation," Frey says. "You are it and you are it for the whole year."
Still, Frey has had golden teaching moments.
"It's great when you're doing a lesson. Just seeing the looks on their faces and how they run up to you," she says. "That's when I say, 'Okay, this is why I'm here.'"
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