Classroom Crusader Prints

'If this is my final mark, I have no choice but to go to mediation.'

"Second grade, second grade, second grade, my teacher wants me to repeat second grade!"

'Sorry for being so cranky. I underslept again.'

We must stand up..against incompetence

"Hi, dear...I'm being sued by a student who claims my teaching was inadequate in his kindergarten class 20 years ago. How was your day?"

'Worried about this year's class sizes?'

'After the revolution' (small people get small schoolbags).

'And we let them do it 80 hours a week.'

'Your homework assignment for tonight is to convince all your parents how grossly under-paid we teachers are.'

'Life isn't fair and neither is Miss Brown!'

"It's what you deserve."

"He's given up finding any more savings from the schools budget. . ."

"So what do we do when we can't say anything nice about someone?"

"It's no my fault I got a D. The system is broken."

'I'd like to challenge the test.'

Computer Class.

"We thought this was more realistic."

'My class is so large and my seat so far back, I feel like I'm taking a distance-learning course.'

'I'm having a hard time balancing homework and family time.'

'This is going really well. I did a great job organizing this lecture.'

Kate's first task as new principal was to right a number of wrongs.

"How was first grade? I don't know yet. I spent all day in the Principal's office."

"That Melinda Alvarez thinks she's so smart! Well, I've been studying, and I'm gonna teach her a lesson on the test we have today!"

"While your lesson plans were perfect, and your bulletin boards were terrific...your classroom management skills need work!"

Back to School

'Sorry professor, my mind was some other place.'

"I knew there'd be pitfalls when I became a teacher, but thirty to a classroom is too many."

'Don't you hate undergoing peer review in these high school chemistry labs?'

"Mrs. Martin is here. She's the new substitute teacher."

"There's also a link to my manifesto in the notes section—www.freewilioz.org, articles four and five, respectively."

"But there are no naps in the first grade."

"But playing computer games help my. . . uh. . . dexterity, so I can do my school work better!"

"That's my survival kit. It has a meditation tape, aspirin and rose-coloured glasses."

"I'm Billy's mother, and this is his attorney!"

"Isn't it great? I found little 'Classroom Mode' switches behind their ears."