Stand for the Best: What I Learned
after Leaving My Job as CEO of H&R
Block to Become a Teacher and
Founder of an Inner-City Charter
School by Thomas M. Bloch
Great Book!
Thirteen years ago, Tom Bloch was CEO of H&R Block, the
groundbreaking tax organization. The son of the company’s founder, he
was a happily married 41-year-old executive, but something was missing
from his life. After a nineteen-year career at the company, Bloch resigned
his position to become a math teacher in an impoverished inner-city
section of Kansas City. Stand for the Best reveals Bloch’s struggles to
make a difference for his marginalized students and how he eventually co-
founded a successful charter school, University Academy.

Personal Review: Stand for the Best: What I Learned after
Leaving My Job as CEO of H&R Block to Become a Teacher and
Founder of an Inner-City Charter School by Thomas M. Bloch
What happens when you have everything, and it doesn't make you happy?
Tom Bloch had a wonderful family, health,
wealth and was the CEO of his families tax preparation business.
But he decided that he could do more by being an inner city math teacher.
So that is what
he became, and helped start a charter public school in Kansas City.
Whether you are an educator, parent, business person or someone
thinking about your future, this is a GREAT book.
Bloch is tough on himself, recognizing that he had a strong support
system.
He knows it was easier for him to walk away that it could be for others.
Bloch writes a strong defense of terrific teachers (some of whom he
describes, who he thinks should be paid a lot more money). He is
explaining why the charter public school movement makes sense.
And he gently urges us to follow our heart, and to live the kind of life
that will most serve others, and make us happy. Wealth did NOT give
Bloch what he wanted.
Walking away from a top corporate life, and walking into an inner city
school to teach math, where he continues to
teach math, that's what added up for him. An upbeat and very
encouraging book.
Joe In Minnesota
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