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PEACE

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows two people dressed in shirts that have half a peace signs on them. They are standing with an arm around each others shoulders so that the peace sign is whole. They have flowers in their hair and are showing the peace sign with their free hands. The tag line reads "Purposeful, Educational Accommodations, Creating, Excellence" the first letter of each word spell out PEACE. The note on the left says, "Inspired by Melanie Giangreco & Amanda Dana"
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Stop the Testing

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows two people in bed. The man is having a bad dream and the woman is trying to wake him. He says "Put down your #2 pencils. Stop the testing! Stop it now!" The woman says "Honey! Wake up! You're just having a bad dream." He replies, "...but I'm not finished!" The tag line reads "Night Terrors: Standardized testing still haunts Harry after all these years."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Grapevine

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows three panels. The top panel shows a grapevine with grapes, the grapes are saying "The new student is artistic?" The next panel shows the continuation of the grapevine with another bunch of grapes and this bunch is saying "Yes, quite artistic!" The third panel shows the end of the grapevine with another bunch of grapes saying "I heard that the new student is quiet and autistic!" The tag line reads "Communication Breakdown #15: Hearing anything through the grapevine continues to be a very unreliable way to get accurate information."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

I Wanna Be a Psychologist

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: This cartoon is two panels. In the top panel the teacher is facing a boy sitting at a desk with his hand up. The teacher says, "So Jimmy, what do you want to be when you grow up?" Jimmy says, "I wanna be a Psychologist." In the bottom panel the teacher is looking confused and says, "That is interesting. Can you tell me what a Psychologist does?" Jimmy is sitting at the desk with a thought bubble above his head with a dinosaur skeleton in it and says, "Sure! They put dinosaur bones together!" The tag line reads "Confusion regarding "ists" and ologists" starts at an early age."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Lead Balloons

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows a woman standing with her hands on her hips looking worried. There are a lot of balloons floating up into the air and four just sitting there in front of her. The one on the far left is blue and says "More Paperwork," the next one is green and says "Too Many Adults," the next one is red and says "More Meetings," the next one is pink and says "Bigger Caseloads." The tag line reads "The Lead Balloons of Special Education."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Mission Impossible

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows a man sitting in an airplane with headphones on listening to a tape player. The message says "Good morning Mr. Phelps. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to provide special education supports for a caseload of 40 students with a wide range of disabilities who are placed in General Education classes. This tape will self destruct..." The tag line reads "Mission Impossible."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Natural Support

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows a man sitting at a desk talking on the phone in a room full of boxes of 100% cotton sports bras and 100% cotton jock straps. The man says to the person on the phone, "What do you mean I got the wrong thing?!" The tag line reads "Natural Supports Breathe; when used appropriately, they make things feel more comfortable."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

When I Grow Up…

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 2000
Description: The cartoon is four panels arranged in two-by-two square. Each panel has a person on a television screen. In the top left panel is a boy saying, "When I grow up, I want to be a Special Educator so I can complete mountains of paperwork for my huge caseload of students." In the panel on the top right is a girl saying, "When I grow up, I want to be a School Principal so that people from different stakeholder groups can take turns getting mad at me." In the panel on the lower left side is a girl saying, "When I grow up, I want to be a Paraprofessional. So that I get paid minimum wages to do teacher work." In the lower right panel is a boy saying, "When I grow up, I want to be a School Psychologist so I can give lots of tests to kids." The tag line reads, "Who will want to do these jobs when they grow up?"
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks

Teaching Spectrum Disorder

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 2000
Description: The cartoon shows two parents sitting holding hands across a table from two educators, a man and a woman. The father is saying, "What have you learned from your evaluation? Why is Sam having such difficulty learning?" To which the woman educator says, "The good news is that Sam doesn't have learning disabilities! The bad news is his teacher has "Pervasive Developmental Teaching Delays." The tag line reads, "Sam's teacher is diagnosed with a 'Teaching Spectrum Disorder'."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks

Legislative Practical Jokes

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 2000
Description: The cartoon shows a legislative gallery-style room. There is a woman standing at the podium in the middle of the room saying, "Gentleladies and Gentlemen, the session will come to order." A man and woman in the front row are whispering to each other. The woman says "I'm sooooo bored! What can we do to have some fun?" The man sitting next to her whispers, "Hmmmm. I know! Let's propose another unfunded mandate!" The tag line reads, "Legislative Practical Jokes."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks

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