31.   In Camden, N.J., so many teachers asked for the day off that the city will close the schools.

32.   In other jampacked classes, teachers politely asked a visitor not to enter.

33.   In fourth grade, his teacher asked if anyone baby-sat.

34.   In some schools last year teachers asked students to keep journals or to discuss what it felt like to turn off the set.

35.   Jason said that the teacher asked him, at one point, to peek out the closet window.

36.   Lopez said he was taken by surprise when the teacher asked him to point out the parts of a sentence on the chalkboard.

37.   No teacher had ever asked this before.

38.   On a biology test, the teacher asked his class to name the kinds of life on Earth.

39.   Now his teachers ask him back to talk to youngsters about the value of education.

40.   On Thursday, their teacher asked them to write letters to God.