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Monday, November 26, 2012

NYC Educator: Say It Ain't So, Miss Oh

NYC Educator: Say It Ain't So, Miss Oh:


Say It Ain't So, Miss Oh

Miss Oh was getting ready to teach her English class when a monitor came to her door with the daily attendance. Included in her little folder. as is often the case, was a stack of papers. Miss Oh dutifully passed out the papers and proceeded to try and figure who was here and who was not. She had learned the hard way, as a new teacher, that administrators take attendance very seriously and was not about to have the same problem twice.

"What's this?" she heard, from her generally well-behaved class.

"You must be kidding me!" came another voice, even more agitated than the first.

"What's the matter," she asked, looking up from the sacred attendance sheet.

"This paper says there's no February vacation, Miss Oh. How can you do this to us?"

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