Up The Down Staircase

Late Bird

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In the past I always looked forward to my English classes with regret but when I entered your room, low and behold, I saw your cheerful countenence standing in front of the class & I got really interested in the subject. You seem to mean it when you smile.

A Bashful Nobody

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Homer is not a very good writer.

Reader

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Everybody is always picking on me because of prejudice and that goes for everybody. Mr. Machabe really has it in for me just because I am color. I have allready fill a complain to Dr. Clark.

Edward Williams, Esq.

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Clean up the slums! Before you go to the moon! And stop the Atomb Bomb! Before its too late! As far as school, without us there could be no school, ha-ha! And no futures!

Lou Martin

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How about a date? I'll fix you up like you never had it before.

Loverboy

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Throw out myths. Throw out old teachers and put in new. Throw down this delapidated school and build a clean one, more moderner, like my other was. With Loud Speakers in every class room where they told you over the Loud Speaker about personal hygene and forest conservation and things like that even if it came in the middle of a lesson. With telephones inside the rooms where if a teacher forgot a pencil she could call up to find out if it's there and later go get it. The traffic in the halls was more roomier and the cafeteria wasn't in the basement. You could sit down and eat. But I couldn't stay.

Stander

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Don't start up with me!

Poisen

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There is one thing you shouldn't do and that is look so beautiful. You distract the attention of Lou and me very much and causes us to pass notes while you talk.

Anonimus

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Is it possible to change my seat to next to Linda Rosen because of my eyesight?

Frank Allen

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What makes you think you're something? You're only a female and I can't stand females. I got enough trouble at home I don't need school.

Rusty

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You're a good teacher except for the rotten books you have to teach like the Oddissy. I wouldn't give it to a dog to read.

Disgusted

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I suggest you and other teachers get a raise in salary so they can live right. I'm sorry I talk out of turn during your teaching, I admit it.

Loudmouth

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Parents are too pushy.

Doodlebug

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I want to thank you for giving me your time after school, for encouraging me to write, for trying. But with 40 others in the class, whose problems are so different, I realize how little you can do, and I feel we are both wasted.

Elizabeth Ellis

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Teach more interesting stories that are hopeful. How in Pygmalian and Galatea the statue got human for the marriage.

Yours for Happy Endings

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I am not a good penman but I must tell some one. I put this in the Suggestion Box for the record. Today is