Classroom Rebel Gifts

"Sorry, your talking in class is not protected by the 1st Amendment."

'Well if you don't want to see me in here anymore, then tell the teachers to stop picking on my bad behaviour!'

Computer Class.

"Have you been on the moon again, young man?"

Postgraduates A group of posts on their way to class.

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

Thinks he's too cool for school.

"Sorry, kid. No off-campus drinking until you're twenty-one."

'I'd like to challenge the test.'

'What are the other nonconformists wearing this year?'

'Before we start, I'd like legal representation.'

"Stop with this mathematics dictatorship."

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

'I wasn't playing hooky -- I was fleeing the deteriorating public school system.'

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

"Well, if the test is multiple choice I choose not to take it."

"So basically you're telling us that you make the youngest of your species sit in a room for twelves years and that is an education. . . you're kidding, right?"

“Honestly class, where are your minds?!”

"Mom, Dad, college changed me."

End school zone. Start unschool zone.

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

"Do I get to lawyer up before I see the Principal?"

'Going to school is NOT an abusive relationship!'

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

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

'At least you won't have to worry about the rising costs of a college education.'

Artist is drawing a mug instead of the models.

'You got everyfink Bruv? Stink bombs, pea shooter, dead frogs . . .'

"EINSTEIN! Stop fooling around and pay attention...."

Who...what...why...when...where...whatever...

'You expect me to play with educational toys during SUMMER VACATION?'

'I assume this is a fictionalized version of your algebra homework.'

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

High School. I was suspended for throwing a Robert Frost book. They didn't see that it was performance - poetry in motion.

"Grandma, this is now how some schools say obey the rules."