L. Pete Bishop, having spent 32 years in public education as a teacher, coach, and administrator, wrote a revealing and entertaining book about a year in an inner-city high school in the midwest.

In this fictionalized memoir, Principal Wilber Packer tries to empower his teachers to help him turn around a low-performing school. Along the way, "Pack" faces more than he bargained for as gangs, board members, and a few parents had their own agendas.

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When we have been hurt, abused, neglected, or unjustly treated, we will be angry about the situation. Anger accumulates in us through our lifetime; it’s stored in our memories. When current events trigger these memories the emotion is expressed. Those who have hot tempers are people with a lot of stored up anger.

This stored up anger creates stress in a person’s life. Stress affects physical and mental health and negatively affects relationships. Anger management teaches people how to control the emotions so that violent actions are avoided. However, the problem with anger management is the fact that the anger is still there—it hasn’t been resolved.

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