~~ Murphy's Laws of Teaching ~~

• The clock in the instructor's room will be wrong.

• Disaster will occur when visitors are in the room.

• A subject interesting to the teacher will bore students.

• The time a teacher takes in explaining is inversely proportional
to the information retained by students.

• A meeting's length will be directly proportional to the boredom 
the speaker produces.

• Students who are doing better are credited with working harder.  
If children start to do poorly, the teacher will be blamed.

• The problem child will be a school board member's son.

• When the instructor is late, s/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.

• New students come from schools that do not teach anything.

• Good students move away.

• When speaking to the school psychologist, the teacher will say
"weirdo" rather than "emotionally disturbed."

• The school board will make a better pay offer before the teacher's
union negotiates.

• The instructor's study hall be the largest in several years.

•  The administration will view the study hall as the teacher's
preparation time.

•  Clocks will run more quickly during free time.

•  On a test day, at least 15% of the class will be absent

•  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.

•  Murphy's Law will go into effect at the beginning of an evaluation.