Review of E. F. Hatfield’s Universalism as It Is (1841)

Bored of education? Learn what’s really going on behind the locked offices and classroom doors of your children’s schools. Seriously, education can be a funny institution. That’s why I have written Blackboard Bungle. Blackboard Bungle is a collection of humorous vignettes, offering a fresh and comedic view of the contemporary school system as seen through the eyes of a recently retired middle school teacher with nearly thirty-four years of experience. Readers will encounter unforgettable characters ( Absent-Minded Professors,
The Traveling Man,
The Devil’s Disciple ), incredible situations ( Ticket to Nowhere,
Lost in the City,
Yelling Theater in a Crowded Fire ), administrative blunders ( The Giant,
One if by Land,
What’s in a Name? ), and controversial topics ( Combat Pay,
Sub Service,
To SURR with Love ), to name a few, in a memoir that exposes the dark and lighter side of today’s schools in a series of brief, anecdotal chapters.