Mr. McCarroll

Things I heard Mr. McCarroll say:

Calculators are notorious liars! Never trust 'em.
Oh No! Not fractions!
Who cares? (only when the choices I gave you don't matter)
Math is easy. 2 plus 2 equals 4 and always will. English is hard! "I before E except after C and in certain other cases where it's not." How can I ever learn to spell with rules like that.
P.S. the British government now agrees
Every teacher in high school thinks that their class is the most important: that you should do their homework first and forgo working on some other subject, if absolutely necessary. Math teachers, however, are the only ones who are correct in making that statement.
When I ask "what kind of line?" and you answer "straight", you automatically flunk the entire year. (For those who don't know, all lines are straight.)
Math is not a spectator sport.
It's not the math that got you. You can do the math part. It is realizing that it is connected to all those words that fooled you.

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