Post by Peace on Feb 17, 2009 20:39:51 GMT -5
Murphy's teaching laws
* The clock in the instructor's room will be wrong.
* Disaster will occur when visitors are in the room.
* A subject interesting to the teacher will bore students.
* The time a teacher takes in explaining is inversely proportional to the information retained by students.
* A meeting's length will be directly proportional to the boredom the speaker produces.
* Students who are doing better are credited with working harder. If children start to do poorly, the teacher will be blamed.
* The problem child will be a school board member's son.
* When the instructor is late, he will meet the principal in the hall.
* If the instructor is late and does not meet the principal, the instructor is late to the faculty meeting.
* New students come from schools that do not teach anything.
* Good students move away.
* When speaking to the school psychologist, the teacher will say: "weirdo" rather than "emotionally disturbed".
* The school board will make a better pay offer before the teacher's union negotiates.
* The instructor's study hall be the largest in several years.
* The administration will view the study hall as the teacher's preparation time.
* Clocks will run more quickly during free time.
* On a test day, at least 15% of the class will be absent
* If the instructor teaches art, the principal will be an ex-coach and will dislike art. If the instructor is a coach, the principal will be an ex-coach who took a winning team to the state.