{"id":97050,"date":"2017-08-22T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/?p=97050"},"modified":"2017-08-22T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T02:00:14","slug":"man-who-gave-up-six-figure-salary-to-teach-at-a-poor-school-watches-95-of-students-go-to-top-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/man-who-gave-up-six-figure-salary-to-teach-at-a-poor-school-watches-95-of-students-go-to-top-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Gave Up Six-Figure Salary To Teach At A Poor School Watches 95% Of Students Go To Top Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-97053\" src=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/4346DC8000000578-4793174-Headteacher_Mouhssin_Ismail_left_international_law_firm_Norton_R-a-2_1502816164085-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/4346DC8000000578-4793174-Headteacher_Mouhssin_Ismail_left_international_law_firm_Norton_R-a-2_1502816164085-1.jpg 731w, https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/4346DC8000000578-4793174-Headteacher_Mouhssin_Ismail_left_international_law_firm_Norton_R-a-2_1502816164085-1-400x256.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--Ads6--><\/p>\n<p>By: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/man-gives-up-top-salary-to-teach-at-poor-school\/\">Good News Network<\/a> \u00a0This school teacher used to be a high-powered lawyer with a six-figure salary \u2013 but he gave it all up so he could help young people in his home neighborhood, one of the poorest areas in England.<\/p>\n<p>Before Mouhssin Ismail started teaching at the\u00a0Newham Collegiate Sixth Form school in East London, he worked at the international law firm of Norton Rose Fulbright.<\/p>\n<p>After teaching for just one year, 190 of his 200 students are set to go to some of Britain\u2019s best universities.\u00a0Of that percentage, nine have been accepted to Oxford and Cambridge.\u00a0One of the students has even been given an offer to study at MIT.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old economics instructor says that he first became inspired to work in education after becoming tired of impersonal financing.<\/p>\n<p><!--Ads7--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a couple of years, I felt unfulfilled,\u201d said the teacher, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4793174\/Lawyer-send-95-pupils-universities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cI didn\u2019t think, \u2018that\u2019s great, I have just done another \u00a350 million deal,\u2019 I thought, \u2018am I making a contribution to society?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI believe in the transformational nature of education and I want to give the ablest students of Newham the very best chance of going to the most competitive universities in the country and abroad,\u201d says Ismail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMy vision for The NCS is to make sure that the young men and women that leave us have the skills and habits of mind to be able to become future leaders in their chosen profession and in society at large.\u00a0They will be confident visionaries who seek out opportunities and find new ways of thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/\">True Activist<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"info@trueactivist.com\">Report a typo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Good News Network \u00a0This school teacher used to be a high-powered lawyer with a six-figure salary \u2013 but he gave it all up so he could help young people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1819,"featured_media":97053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[108,66,3505,47],"tags":[7252,62,1807,7250,7251,1794,1714,7253,1790],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - 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