Reader Response: L.H., IA

This novel shows the crossroads where fiction unveils reality. This novel made me feel that I was in the classroom again. For many years I listed the follies and foolishness of a number of principals and their club of central administration cronies. This book summarizes the list in a well-crafted reading. Is this fiction or non-fiction. How can you tell the difference? WIll principals, central administrators, and school boards be able to sleep without nightmares when they read this?

An astute teacher once said there are two school districts, one for administrators and school boards, and one for students and teachers. This novel clearly shows him to be correct.

Every teacher who endures an incompetent principal should carry this book around each teaching day as a notice that they arecognize administrative incompetence when they see it. No teacher, parent, administrator, or school board member can afford not to read this novel."