title: Gradebusters: How Parents Can End the Bad Grades Battle
author: Stephen Schmitz
description: Bravo for acknowledging conflict as a necessary in being a parent, and reminding us school is a full-time job. -- <i>Elizabeth Leiknes, California English Teacher</i><br /><br />Deals with issues head-on that would otherwise plague our children with bad grades and rob them of innate talents. -- <i>Dessie S. Williams, President, National Association for Developmental Education, and Asst. Professor/Coordinator of Multicultural Affairs, Louisiana State University (Alexandria)</i><br /><br />Reads like parent's private session with author, who shares step-by-step solutions in highly readable style . . . Highly recommended -- <i>Library Journal</i>
zlib_text: Everything Can Heal
  By Cameron Hart
  
  Chapter 1
  Riley
  “Riley! What the fuck is this?” My dad bellows from his office upstairs.
  Shit.
  I have a pretty good idea what “this” is. The school sent out our grades this afternoon. In this
  digital age, everything is done online, which gives very little opportunity to sneak around or change
  grades. It’s a shame, really. I feel like I could have done quite well for myself if I were born twenty
  years ago. Oh what I wouldn’t do for a paper copy of my grades that I could change with a few well-
  placed swipes of a pen.
  I trudge up the huge winding marble staircase to the second floor, marching to my own execution.
  Sure enough, when I get to my dad’s office, he’s logged into the school’s portal for parents. His face
  gets a little redder, his eyebrows knit together a little closer, and the vein in his neck throbs a little
  faster with each scroll across my grade report.
  “This is unacceptable, Riley. How is it possible that I pay for the best schools and t