Tony Danza will star in a new A&E reality show in which he spends a year teaching English at a New York City high school. And you better believe it took every fiber of my being not to write “Who’s the Boss NOW?” as a lede. From the NY Post’s Starr Report (via BWE):
In the untitled project, Danza — who earned a degree in history education from the University of Dubuque before launching his acting career — will spend a year teaching 10th grade English at a New York City school.
“I was talking about going back and answering the call to service and doing something different with my life,” Danza told me yesterday. “I’m going to teach 10th grade English and have some other duties, maybe a drama class, and all of the things that come with teaching, like cafeteria duty.
“I’m trying to do what I call ‘responsible reality,’ ” says Danza, 58. “I don’t want to do that other [reality] stuff and I don’t want to do a game show and nobody’s knocking down my door for acting jobs.”
Wow, that’s kinda sad and mildly heartwarming all at once. And it’s not like today’s high schoolers grew up watching him bicker with Judith Light and buy training bras for Alyssa Milano. **flashback to pubescent sigh** So hey, why NOT do something good and teach? Also, I want to see it just for the chance something like this might happen:
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He’s answering the call to service by getting paid six figures to do a reality tv show? How much do soliders get paid again?
wehavehair, he earns every cent of that by giving man-crazy Mona a weekly Danza Slap.
I’m trying to do what I call ‘responsible reality,’
Sexy.
You started a TV Blog just so you could go through the Life magazine photo archives all day, didn’t you?
Is that Carl Monday stalking the Danza?
The sad thing is, he is actually qualified to be an English teacher in NYC public schools.
LIFE Magazine photo archives complete me.
Everywhere I go I see teachers driving Ferraris, research scientists drinking champagne.
I tried to drink a Coke on the bus, and they took away my pass!
How do I reech theese keeds?
Im a certified English Teacher in NY and have been trying to get a job for two years.. Yet Tony Danza got one somehow.. A history graduate..
wehavehair, Tony seems to be a genuine person. I believe he truly wants to do good, but he also has to make a living. He said himself no one is knocking down his door asking him for jobs. Soldiers volunteer to risk their lives and murder others. God says not to kill, yet these “soldiers” murder and get murdered everyday. At least Tony is trying to give others an education, something that will help them in life.
Tony Danza is a good person for wanting to do something for others. He is trying a risky move teaching a class that may or may not listen to him. I believe that an unemployed actor who was at the top of the world one time or another wanting to change the world. Giving someone an education is the best thing he could do with his life. The teachers salary is very low ( I wouldntt really know cause Im not a teacher but just a student) and wanting to teach and give something to someone is a good thing. I believe that his co-stars from “Who’s the boss” are also making a huge difference too, Alyssa is helping out with many charities for other countries and Judith was helping with many things too.