Teacher Misery perfectly encapsulates the comical misery that has become the teaching job. Jane Morris’s strange, funny, and occasionally unbelievable teaching experiences are informed through a assortment of short stories, essays and artifacts including true emails from parents, college students and administrators. In the parents who blame their son’s work of arson over the teacher for leading to him low self-esteem, to the student who offers to instruct the instructor how to offer drugs therefore she pays her bills, to the administrator whose greatest advice is normally to ‘deal with kids like sacks of shit,’ a single story is even more shocking than the next. An important book for instructors and non-teachers alike, Teacher Misery paints an amusing and completely entertaining picture of what is becoming of our education program, without detracting from the entire stage that what instructors have to endure today is complete, utter, undesirable insanity.