This was an accessible, straight-forward book written from a British perspective, which I enjoyed. However, I don't know that it really hit on anything that I haven't seen elsewhere as far as classroom management, so I was ultimately a bit disappointed. His first recommendation for a noisy class, which is to enlist students as "shushers" would not go well in my Title I middle school classroom... while reading this section, I could practically hear my students telling each other to "shut the f*** up!" if I hired them to shush each other. On top of that, I think it's hard for a male teacher to offer suggestions that will always and without fail work for a female teacher. Not that gender is everything, but for secondary students, they definitely treat you differently if you're a woman.