Tales Out of School

"The year was 1934, in the depths of the Great Depression, and everyone was holding onto his or her job.

Clutching my bachelor's degree in one hand and a newly minted teacher's certificate in the other, I stood in a fever of desperation before the manager of the employment agency.

I don't know which I feared most - that she would find a teaching position...or that she wouldn't".

Luckily, the manager of the employment agency found a teaching position for young Verl Crow and thus began a teaching and administration career that spanned 38 years in the Iowa school system.

Tales Out of School traces her transition from teaching a handful of students in a one-room country school to serving as assistant principal and guidance counselor for a student body of hundreds in a large urban junior high school.

Filled with humorous reminiscences, Tales Out of School emphasizes the special relationships that develop between teachers and students.

Bob Artley's cartoons provide a warm and charming accompaniment to the text.