As a school psychologist in a high school I was excited to read this book hoping it could provide me with insight on how to support students experiencing school avoidance. There is some useful information here that I will take with me into my own practice, but ultimately I was really disappointed in how the author positions school as the enemy in all of this. I hope it was not the author's intention, but the message of this book also kind of blames schools for this population's difficulties. She makes the point on multiple occasions that it is not the child's fault and not the parents' fault, but then strongly suggests it is the school's fault. This hardly helps to establish a cooperative and collaborative relationship between parents and schools. I do not pretend that all teachers, school personnel, and schools do everything right all the time, but this book pretty much paints everyone associated with a school with the same brush. Maybe I am being overly sensitive because I know how hard the school in which I work strives to support its students. But even including the term "toxic teachers" frustrates me and suggests that parents tend to forget teachers are people too with their own flaws, mental health struggles, and crushing pressures to meet expectations. I do wish, however, that I lived in this author's magical fantasy world where we are not experiencing a nation-wide teacher/counselor/school psychologist shortage, that most schools/districts have social workers, that there are not long wait lists for outpatient mental health supports (especially in rural areas), that insurance will cover expenses related to therapy, and that we are not about to experience unprecedented cuts to public education (which will most definitely hurt mental health programs in schools).