Close the Door So It Can't Get in Your Room

Written by a former teacher, who was obviously a good one, this play suggests an answer to that hard-to-answer question: What makes a good teacher? Paul Bennett has many struggles his first year as a teacher—lazy students, indifferent students, rebellious students, flirtatious students, irate parents, indifferent parents and indifferent faculty members. Hopefully some teachers in your audience will recognize themselves—and reform. Bennett's biggest struggle, however, is within himself: "Am I doing any good as a teacher?" he asks. "Should I quit and go into some other work?" The author, a veteran educator in North Dakota schools, has given us a play that will tingle the emotions and tickle the laugh box of everyone who has anything to do with education—teachers, administrators, students, parents and taxpayers.