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Member since July 18, 2005

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The Essential 55: An Award-winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child - Rated Terrible

I should've known what I was getting into when I paid $2 for this book on a clearance rack!

The vast majority of these 55 tips take control away from the child and put it in the hands of a big-headed teacher who will punish them to shocking extremes for things like not saying "thank you" within 3 seconds, for not knowing which is a salad fork, or (most arbitrarily) bringing Doritos into the classroom. The icing on the cake is the teacher's fallibility: he admits to not wanting to be a teacher at all, and commits awful acts of agression and poor judgment throughout this little rule book.

The author's lack of writing experience is painfully evident as he will go off on long tangents while describing a rule. Most of the rules are based simply on things that he and his class did, which gives no help to anyone wanting to follow the advice (ie: get a $12,000 anonymous donor and take your kids to the White House!)

This book boils down to one big ego stroke thanks to his "award-winning" status, and is one of a handful he wrote while riding on his fifteen seconds of fame. I'm sure the others are equally useless.

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