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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.

"Students who get along well with their teachers and with each other are almost always successful, but, overall, less than half the students do." Causation fallacy here; is the connection that getting along well with people at school leads to students doing better? Or that doing well in school leads to getting along with peers and teachers? Or both? Or neither?