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Title: Coy, Over-Sweetened, and Self-Serving
Review: Codell's book has a lot of fictional anecdotes. She claims to have told off Principals and other administrators, which no teacher could ever do without getting in massive trouble. I think that what she's done is present an idealised version of the truth, and the truth is that her first year couln't have been as sucessfull as she claims it was.I agree that the Principal had few good qualities, but the book is damaged by her anger, which seeps through. She continues to rail at the Principal, long after she's made her point.On a last note, I don't sympathise with her complaint about the Principal "starring" at her body. Any teacher who wears a skin-tight leotard to school is probably suffering from dementia.
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