Classroom Crusaders Gifts

'Uh-oh, teacher burnout!'

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

'Smashing party, Miss - can we have another one tomorrow?'

'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.'

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

'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.

"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

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

'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."

'What does surrender mean?'

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

What teachers want to say.

"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!"

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

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

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

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

"First day of school and you've already got problem students?"

'I just can't take the eraser bits, the spit balls and the insults anymore!'

"My math teacher says I should consider becoming a teacher some day."

'You waved a white flag?2

'She will not call on me, she will not call on me, she. . .'

'As it's your first day Frobisher, I feel I should warn you that the pupils can be a bit of a handful!'

"Baldo, no normal kid is excited about summer ending."

'Your poll numbers were great during recess, but voter apathy at nap time cost you the election.'