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, and indifferent parents, indifferent faculty members (hopefully some teachers in your audience will recognize themselves—and reform). Mr. 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.

"Thank you so much for the wonderful letter you sent with regard to the requested changes by our school administration for 'Close the Door So It Can't Get in Your Room'...Your support is appreciated by all of us—thanks again, and bless you all!"—Carol A. Tomlin, Souderton Area High School, Penn.

2-act; set in high school classroom; modern clothes

Also by Ev Miller: Jennifer's First Christmas (An Evening with Eve)

Other plays about social issues: Artie, A Friend Like Artie, A Different Drummer, Don't Say It, Help, How Reading Came Back to Nowhere, Isolation, The Other Person's Shoes, The River Between, Rhubarb Jam, All the World's a Stage, Stark Drama, Stations, A Trying Ordeal, Turners, Welcome to Carnie, What Will Happen to the Children?