I’m pretty sure all of my readers are aware that I am a longtime public educator and school librarian, but it’s pretty important that I put that out there again for today’s book recommendation. You need to know that I’ve been steeping in public schools as a professional for 20 years and have been entwined with them for my entire life, if we want to count the time I attended public schools and lived with and observed my public educator parents.

I do know this world - I need to make sure you know that. I have credibility, years in the field, boots on the ground ~ I’ve been there. AM there.

This book is one that my sister told me about a few weekends ago when we were together, and I bought it on my Kindle immediately so I didn’t have to wait for a hard copy. We both read it later that week and I haven’t been able to stop talking about it and recommending it to people in my field.

It’s a book I was nervous about recommending to my admin and student services team, however, because … well, it pushes back pretty hard against something that we do. What is DONE. What is considered the right thing to do, the Kool-Aid we’ve been drinking for decades. However, I was reassured that the author himself is a public educator and the subtitle suggests that nuance exists within.