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Cast: 12M., 18W. (Smaller With Doubling.) 'Hi, Teach!' Are The First Words To Greet Attractive Sylvia Barrett. There'S A Special Happiness In Walking Into The Stillempty Classroom And For The First Time Writing Her Name On The Blackboard. Students Pour Into The Classroomcautious, Testing, Challenging. Simultaneously, There'S A Blizzard Of Paperwork, Warnings, Contradictory Orders, Indecipherable Instructions. Frantic, Sylvia Begins To Fear She Doesn'T Even Understand The Language. An Experienced Teacher Translates: 'Keep On File In Numerical Order' Means Throw In Wastebasket. 'Let It Be A Challenge' Means You'Re Stuck With It. 'Interpersonal Relationships' Means A Fight Between Kids. And 'It Has Come To My Attention' Means You'Re In Trouble. Soon Sylvia Finds Herself The Most Involved Person In The Schoolinvolved In The Start Of A Romance And In A Near War With A Disciplineovereverything Administrator, But, Most Of All, Involved In The Unexpected, Sometimes Heartbreaking Problems Of Her Students. The Simple Stage Arrangement Makes The Play Easy To Produce And Serves To Convey A Sense Of The Whole School. One Critic Said, 'Seldom Has A Humorous Work Been At The Same Time So Important.' Show more