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Magic Stapler

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1998
Description: This image depicts a faux advertisement poster. At the top is says, "You can purchase this Magic Stapler $12.99" It shows the image of a basic stapler and star burst where it had stapled together multiple pages of an IEP, each page labeled with goals of different disciplines: special education, physical therapy, speech-language pathology, and orientation and. mobility. The bottom of the poster says, "Comes with 599 magic staples -- no fairy dust required." The tag line under the cartoon reads, "Transform your separate, disjointed, discipline-specific, uncoordinated goals into a team IEP."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Ants in His Pants

Home Reality

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows a man and woman sitting and looking exasperated and tired. The mans says to the woman, "We made it through another busy day. Work, dinner, the kids homework, dishes, laundry, bills paid, the kid's baths, bedtime stories‚Ä¶" and the woman responds, "Oh No! We forgot to do the 'home therapy program' and to work on 'IEP Goals'!" The tag line reads "Home programming collides with home reality!"
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Looking for Luck

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows a man wearing a Fighting Irish shirt, throwing salt over his right shoulder, holding a 4 leaf clover and a rabbit's foot, standing on 2 horseshoes. There is a person in the lower left corner of the panel asking, "What are you doing?" The man responds, "Getting ready for my son's IEP Meeting." The tag line reads "Looking for luck in all the wrong places."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Born to be Filed

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 2000
Description: This cartoon shows a bearded biker wearing a black leather jacket with a skull and crossbones on the back sitting on his motorcycle while placing a file folder in a file cabinet. One file says, "No one's ever going to see us again are they?" Another file folder replies, "Nope!" In the background a rock band consisting of two guitar players and a drummer are signing to the melody of Steppenwolf's Born to be Wild, although the words have been changed to: "Get your motor runnin'. Head out on the highway. Lookin' for adventure in whatever comes our way. BORN TO BE FILED!" The tag line reads, "Teammates engage in their annual pot-IEP completion ritual."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks

Is Bigger Better?

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1998
Description: This cartoon shows two colleagues talking to each other. One says, "Do you really expect to implement that 50 page IEP?" The other person, who is hold a thick document and who looks excited says in response, "No, but doesn't it look great!" The tag line under the cartoon reads, "Is Bigger Better?"
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Ants in His Pants

Individualized Education

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1998
Description: This cartoon shows two special education colleagues in front of a computer monitor. As one person points to the screen she says, "Mrs. Worthy, I hope you like our new computerized individual education plans. They allow us to have all our students' goals be the same." The tag line under the cartoon reads, "Individualized Education: Mrs. Smithfield fails to notice the contradiction."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Ants in His Pants

Slim Plan

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 1999
Description: The cartoon shows three panels. In the first panel is a woman happy and smiling. The caption at the top of the panel reads "I lost inches and pounds off my IEPs using slim plan. You can too." The lower left panel shows "Before" the same woman is holding a huge pile of papers in the panel it reads, "My IEPs were bloated, thick, and weak. I had unwanted inches and unsightly goals and objectives." The panel on the right says "After" and shows the happy woman again and reads "Now my IEPs are slim, lean and strong. I feel better and I have more energy." the tag line reads "Helen helps herself have healthier habits."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

Amazing Maize

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Creator: Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-.
Date Created: 2000
Description: The cartoon shows a woman standing at the edge of a large corn field holding a flag with a very long handle. There are two wooden signs. One reads, "Welcome to the Special Ed IEP Process" and the other says, "Please, Take a flag in case you get lost." There is a flag in the field to the left of the panel and someone hidden in the corn maize saying, "I'm back at the same place again." and another flag on the right side of the panel with a different hidden person saying, "Does this ever end?" The tag line reads, "The amazing special education maize."
Parent Collections: Absurdities and Realities of Special Education, Teaching Old Logs New Tricks

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