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Stock No. 181-05598, Single Copies $1.00, 2-9 Copies, 10% Discount; 10 Or More Copies, 20% Discount) DOCUMENT RESUME ED 069 398 PS 006 124 AUTHOR Glasser, William TITLE The Effect of School Failure on the Life of a Child. INSTITUTION National Education Association, Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 71 NOTE 25p. AVAILABLE FROM National EducationAssociation, 1201 Sixteenth St., Wash., D. C. 20036 (Stock No. 181-05598, single copies $1.00, 2-9 copies, 10% discount; 10 or more copies, 20% discount) EDRS PRICE MF-$0.65 HC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS *Academic Failure; *Childhood Attitudes; *Educational Change; Grading; *Psychiatrists; *School Systems; Teacher Attitudes ABSTRACT A psychiatrist discusses ways to help children who are failing in school, the reasons behind their failure and the self perpetuating nature of failure. Teacher attitudes, the grading system, and the educational process itself are listed as three areas requiring change if failing students are to be helped. (0() FIL:.:ED I'.: PTST AVAILABLECOPY William Glasser, is Director, I.:dm:atm Training Center, Los Angeles, California, and Consulting Psychiatrist, Los Angeles City aml Palo Alto Schools. This publication is based on an address by Dr. Glasser at the 1909 Annual Meet- ing of the National Association of Elementary School Principals, NEA, in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is reprinted from the September 1969 and November 1969 issues of The National Elementary Principal. Copyright 1971 National Association of Elementary Schools Principals National Education Association Allrights reserved No part of Ibis book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from 11w publisher. except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages. 1.ibrary of Congress catalog card number: 78-160-.170 NEA stock number; 181-05598 Single copies $1.00 2-9 copies. 10'N. discount; 10 or more copies. 20"/.. discount Published by the National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Eck; Lation Association. Washington. D.C. 200;th Minted in the United Slates of America BY profession, I'm a psychiatrist. But I've become concerned and inter- ested in education because I have had many contacts with educators. Nlany of These educators are complaining Thal they have a lot of kids in their schools who are hard to gel along with. In des- peration they will even ask a psychia- trist to come in and see if he can do anything about it. So. at this time.I consider myself it psychiatrist who is desperately trying to become il school teacher in order to help all the school teachers who are trying to become psychiatrists. Nly background in education is. of course, extensive. I went to school 27 yearo.Ihaven't been it teacher very long, but I've spent a long lime ill the classroom. And the only really good educational experience I had in those (like 27 years was in np.!dical school at Western Reserve University in Cleve- land, Ohio. The philosophy and many of the ideas in my book, Schools 1.111,- out Fuilue, are patterned after the kind of education I received al 111;11 111elliCal 51:11001. 'Thal school was quite a revelation to nu!. I thought going to medical school was really going lo be rough.People had %yarned me about the crusty old professors and how they make life hard for you. But it wasn't that way at all. On the first day we wen! there, the dean spoke to us. 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