We got this jerky sub. she don't know a thing and she's trying to teach it. - Bel Kaufman

The ceiling fell? The ink ran dry? A student dared to smile?
Of every new disaster
I prove myself the master
By sending out more circulars, more circulars to file!
A missing kid? A kissing kid? A paper on the floor?
For every major crisis
One remedy suffices:
More circulars, more circulars, to put into a drawer!<p>A crowded cafeteria?
A substitute's hysteria?
A visitor from Syria?
A missing Book Receipt?<p>I merely send out circulars
To add to other circulars
To add to other circulars
Numerical and neat!

A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.

My words never reached him; I could almost hear them drop, one by one, like so many pebbles against a closed window.