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Crucial Test
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- Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
- Date Created: 2000
- Description: The cartoon shows a scene inside the offices of the Acme Lie Detectors Service. Two men sitting at a table across from each other. One of the men is attached to a lie detector machine which is recoding his responses -- he has wires attached to his arm, is holding a glass of water, and looking nervous. The tester from the agency in a lab coat is looking at a monitor and writing something on the display. He asks, "Do you like Children?" The tag line reads, "Prospective teachers of the future will need to pass this crucial test." A tag line on the left reads, "Inspired by Eileen Cichosky Kelly."
- Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks
Rock and a Hard Place
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- Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
- Date Created: 2000
- Description: The cartoon shows an administrator, dressed in a suit, being squished between a brick wall and a giant boulder. There is a sign on the wall that says, "Board of Education" and three arms, coming in from the left side of the panel, pushing the boulder into the man. There is writing on each of the three arms which read, "Parents," "Teachers," and "Advocates." The tag line reads, "School administrators often find themselves between a rock and a hard place."
- Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks
Thin Ice
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- Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
- Date Created: 2000
- Description: The cartoon shows a person skating while carrying two very large stack of papers, three feet higher than his head, one in each arm. The image shows the skater on thin, cracking ice with open water on one side where two small fish watch in fear. The tag line reads, "If your caseload is too big, you are skating on thin ice."
- Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks
Odd Jobs
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- Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
- Date Created: 2000
- Description: The cartoon shows three people sitting at a table side-by-side. Each of them has a box with nuts and bolts in front of them. The man on the left says, "I put the nut and bolt together." The person in in the middle says, "I take the nut and bolt apart." The woman on the right says, "I put the nut and bolt together." The sign on the front of the table reads "Sheltered Make -Work Industries, Inc. since 1969." The tag like reads, "Odd Jobs!"
- Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks
Wavelength
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- Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
- Date Created: 2000
- Description: The cartoon shows a machine with knobs and a speaker that records and displays wavelengths. There are yellow waves crossing the monitor. On parallel (non-intersecting) waves displayed on the monitor are people trying to get to from their different wave lengths on to the same one. The tag line reads, "Team effectiveness requires all the members to get on the same wavelength."
- Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks
Standards Protest
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- Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
- Date Created: 2000
- Description: The carton shows people in the foreground picketing with signs that say, "Put your money where your mouth is!" "Students for adult accountability," "Students against revisionist history." "Why, when I was a kid…", "Fairness in standards now!" In the upper left corner of the panel in the background are two men in suits. One man says to the other, "Thank goodness we made it through school before the standards movement!" The tag line reads, "Standards are adjusted after the legislature considers a bill requiring school board members to pass the same assessments given to students."
- Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks
Out in the Mountains, December, 2000
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- Date Issued: 2000-12-01
Part of: Out in the Mountains
Clearing a Path
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- Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
- Date Created: 2000
- Description: The cartoon shows a school with children waiting at the bottom of the stairs for a school custodian to shovel the snow so that they can get into the building. A student in a wheelchair asks the custodian, "Could you please shovel the ramp?" he replies, "All these other kids are waiting to use the stairs. When I get through shoveling them off then I will clear the ramp for you." The student in the wheelchair replies back, "But if you shovel the ramp we can all get in!" The tag line reads, "Clearing a path for people with special needs clears the path for everyone!"
- Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks
Successful Inservice Training
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- Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
- Date Created: 2000
- Description: The cartoon shows a room with a number of people at tables for a workshop. There is an overhead projector and screen at the front of the room. A box on the floor is labeled "Yummy Candy." There is a woman talking to the person who will be doing the workshop. She says, "Everything is set for the workshop as you requested. But why 50 pounds of candy?" The presenter replies, "Never underestimate the power of chocolate." The tag line reads, "The real key to successful inservice training." A tag line on side of the cartoon reads, "Inspired by my friends in Iceland."
- Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks