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This wonderful collection of the best and funniest cartoons published over the last eighty years in The New Yorker takes a wry look into the classroom--at the students, at their blindly devoted but demanding parents, and especially, at the teachers whoo negotiate the delicate balance between those forces every day. With 118 cartoons, this is a perfect gift for teachers and a treasure of laughs for all!
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One young scholar threatens to reclaim his voucher and go to circus school, dogs comment on the homework left in their bowls, and an eight-year-old delivers his report on what he did during his summer vacation flanked by state troopers. Editor and cartoonist Mankoff has created a collection guaranteed to buoy the spirits of teachers wondering about the futility of it all. Topics range from the latest trends in educational theory and practice ("It is tricky" is one conclusion) to common but still inexplicable student and parental behaviors (apparently it is not cheating if one pays for one's term papers with one's own allowance), administrational aberrance ranging from the bizarre to the even more bizarre, and always-piquant observations from the sidelines. Readers who are teachers may even recognize themselves amongst the herd of educators with odd names and hairstyles and afflictions such as ADHD and terminal perkiness. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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