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Letter from the Education Board

Our Miss Brooks · March 5, 1950 · 29 min · 4,477 words

The transcript of “Letter from the Education Board”, an episode of Our Miss Brooks first broadcast March 5, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Our Miss Brooks plays Our Miss Brooks free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Colgate Dental Cream to clean your breath while you clean your teeth and help stop tooth decay and Luster cream shampoo for soft glamorous caressible hair bring you our Miss Brooks starring Eve Arden It's time once again for another comedy episode of our Miss Brooks written by Al Lewis Well, they say that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb

But our Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School has an amendment to this ancient bromide Yes, this year, March and our beloved principal, Osgoode Conklin, both came in like lions. And last Wednesday morning, when he summoned me to his office, I could tell by the tone of his roar that he had gotten up on the wrong side of his cage.

As I entered his office, however, I was thrown off guard somewhat by his bluff and hearty manner. In fact, his first two words to me were replete with camaraderie and affection. Sit down. Yes, sir.

Miss Brooks, I arrived at school this morning, 15 minutes ahead of anyone else, as is my will. It certainly is. And as I...it certainly is what? Your won't. That is, getting here 15 minutes ahead of anyone else is an old wall to the yard.

Yes, sir, that one won't go way back. That's working for you for almost five years. I guess I know as much about your different won'ts as any teacher in this... Hush! Sorry, sir. As I passed through the hall, I noticed one of the classroom doors was a job.

It was your room, Miss Brooks. As I reached in to close the door, I saw your blackboards. They hadn't been stolen. No, no. But they hadn't been erased either. You know very well, Miss Brooks, that it has long been a strict rule in this institution that nothing is to remain on the blackboards overnight.

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