OK... So I love the message of this book: simple basics/cut the excesses/get positive results, but I am struggling with exactly how this can play out in the "real world" where we teach. How can we teach only the most important SOLs when they all might be on the tests in May? How can we stop doing the projects and extra things that many parents see as the challenge they seek for their kids? How can we spend more time on simple good lesson planning when we have so many other things pulling on us and being expected of us from so many sources? Are we really free to "just say no," or will that not realistically be an option? I do believe there might be strength in numbers... that if we as a team or as a school ALL adopt this philosophy we might stand a better chance of making it happen. I hope we can and do  because as I said I love the message of this book!!!