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'Home Schooling'

Cuba restarts virtual classes

"I'm doing all I can to make the little things count."

"Darren Eggleston. I saw that!"

Horace Mann

"Shows you how much I know."

'The good news is that all the teachers liked the weekend brainstorming retreat. The bad news is that twelve of them are out today with splitting headaches.'

"Any missed assignments can be excused only with a note from your internet service provider."

I must not erase major breakthroughs....

Pandemic-parenting

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

I'm home-schooling him.

"Blood sweat and tears. I think it's supposed to make us feel guilty."

'I give all my new teachers the same advice. Never minimize the transformative power of a smile attached to your words.'

'...... in sickness and in health, through the long lean years before tenure or perhaps no tenure, for better of for worse ......'

'Teacher says I don't pay attention, I have no retention but I'm great at detention.'

"There are thirty four children in my class...thirty one naughty, three nice."

"I may have to go back into the office - we're running low on stationery."

"Don't try to tell me this P.E. class! Get back to your homeschooling!"

'Don't worry, the first thirty years of teaching are the hardest.'

'Please sir, I did give you the correct answer. But, you gave me the wrong question.'

"Dad, tell me about the birds and the bees and safeguards."

"President or no president, you can't submit your homework in a tweet."

"Ever since we started home schooling, I've developed more of an appreciation for school lunches."

Frank Lloyd Wright

'This is great - what an idea! I can do a unit on gravity and the laws of motion for science class!'

"If a teacher makes $40,000 a year, and her mortgage is $2200 a month...."

"Sorry, no more room. What a shame, I’m the teacher."

'Angry parents on lines 1,2,3,4 and 5.'

'Actually this is a very experimental college. We have no curriculum and no classes. How it works, essentially, is if you want to learn something, you go someplace and you learn it.'

'If I didn't flunk something every once in a while, how would I ever learn anything?'

Homeschooled Doctor. Mom says: 'After you set your sister's leg one more time we'll take a milk and cookies break...'

'No, you don't have fever. You have to go to school.'