As a suburban educator I can tell you this is 100% accurate. Anyone, parent, teacher, politician who wants to see what is going on in a school from both a student and faculty perspective must read this book. This is the real deal.WARNING TO ALL EDUCATORS about this book: this book is so real and accurate that reading it will make you think you are at work. This book is not an escape read for a teacher, it brings you back to work for another period! You can put names from your own school on all the people in this book.Educators will read this book and say how truthful it is, everyone else should read it and see how scary the educational system has become.