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(continued) Without supervision, the other students' behaviors would have gradually become more and more disruptive, making it impossible for the one-on-one tutoring to be effective. The only reason Glasser was able to tutor the students he worked with was that the teacher kept the rest of the class well-managed. (Glasser DOES note that this "was actually a good class" (p. 260).

Glasser asserts that if the classroom teacher had given focused attention to individual students instead of spot-checking while monitoring the whole class, which resulted in NO work, that those few individual students would have completed some work, while the other students would have continued quietly not-working. I maintain that this is FALSE.

While it's understandable that Glasser might not want to share details from a real-life patient, using a fictional character for a hypothetical "what might happen in counseling" scene feels ... well, pointless, to be honest.

You did not present this as a novel, Bill. This makes me trust you less.

While you can't always change your situation, you can change your expectations and/or your response.