Turning Point

<P>Whether the reader is has been or will become a middle school teacher or a middle school student or parent this book provides a close look at life in middle school: How challenges emerge and obstacles are overcome as well as how one student turned his life and his school around.</P><P>Many middle school students don't see the dangers of not working to their potential. Involuntarily encouraged by social promotion and other factors they may not reach a turning point until in some cases it is too late.</P><P>In Turning Point authors Paul Rallion and Chuck Wong present the reality of many middle school students some of whom believe that all they have to do is sit pretty in class. Yet there are other students who show tremendous academic growth. What makes them do well?What's their turning point?</P>