An Instructor's guide to Murphy's Law.
1. Good students move away.
2. New students come from schools that do not teach anything.
3. The teachers' lounge will be in the worst room of the school.
It will contain dusty furniture and one noisy mimeograph machine.
4. The shorter the working time, the more the mimeograph will malfunction.
5. The clock in the instructor's room will be wrong.
6. The school board will make a better pay offer before the teacher's union negotiates.
7. 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.
8. Children who touch the instructor will have scabies or bubonic plague.br> 9. When speaking to the school psychologist, the teacher will say
"weirdo" rather than "emotionally disturbed".
10. Disaster will occur when visitors are in the room.
11. The time a teacher takes in explaining is inversely proportional to
the information retained by students.
12. Students who are blind, deaf and/or behavioral problems will sit in
the back of the room.
13. Extra-duty nights will occur when the best shows are on TV.
14. The problem child will be a school board member's son.
15. The instructor's study hall be the largest in several years.
16. The administration will view the study hall as the teacher's
preparation time.
17. Students who are doing better are credited with working harder. If
children start to do poorly, the teacher will be blamed.
18. Extracurricular duties will take more preparation time than classes.
19. A meeting's length will be directly proportional to the boredom the
speaker produces.
20. Clocks will run more quickly during free time.
21. On a test day, at least 15% of the class will be absent.
22. 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.
23. A subject interesting to the teacher will bore students.
24. Murphy's Law will go into effect at the beginning of an evaluation.
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