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Teacher Misery perfectly encapsulates the comical misery that has become the teaching profession.

Jane Morris’s strange, funny, and sometimes unbelievable teaching experiences are told through a collection of short stories, essays, and artifacts including real emails from parents, students, and administrators.

From the parents who blame their son’s act of arson on the teacher for causing him low self-esteem to the student who offers to teach the teacher how to sell drugs so she can pay her bills, one story is more shocking than the next.

An important book for teachers and non-teachers alike, Teacher Misery paints an amusing and thoroughly entertaining picture of what has become America’s education system.

More Teacher Misery tackles even more of the hilarious, unbelievable, and completely absurd experiences of teachers around the country.

With topics such as pointless professional development where the author learned how to make bird noises, insanely incompetent teachers who make the good ones look bad, the shit parades that are parent conferences, and outrageous parent requests such as checking the size and color of a teenager’s poop, this follow-up to the wildly popular memoir Teacher Misery does not disappoint!

Think the stuff in Teacher Misery was insane? Just wait till you read More Teacher Misery!

From the bestselling author of Teacher Misery, comes a collection of outrageous stories from other teachers across the US.

What It’s Really Like tells stories of helicopter parents and awful administration, horrendous student behavior with no consequences, and crazy-ass parents and their insane requests.

Unlike her other books, Morris includes a sprinkling of tales that will break your heart and a few that will give you the warm fuzzies we all need to keep going.

This book is hilarious, shocking, heartwarming, sad, gross, and sometimes inspiring because that is what teaching is really like.

Take a detour from the commiserations of Teacher Misery to instead revel in all the crazy things kids make. From elementary kids’ hysterically inappropriate misspellings and drawings to high school kids and their inappropriate essays such as “How to Twerk,” this substantive masterpiece covers it all!

Crap My Students Make is a curated collection that combines hundreds of outrageous, never-before-seen student artifacts as well as favorites from the wildly popular Teacher Misery instagram account.

It’s a perfect coffee table book for impressing your guests with the shenanigans of your professional life. Or gift it to your favorite teacher – they’re sure to get a kick out of it!