Miss Daisy Is Crazy reminded me a great deal of Louis Sachar’s Wayside School books. A.J. is an uninterested student, newly assigned to Miss Daisy’s class. A.J. complains about hating school and hating schoolwork, and Miss Daisy agrees with him, seeming to be even more clueless about the subjects that she is supposed to teach than A.J. and her students. The students become teachers to their teacher.
To me, reading as an adult, I see Miss Daisy’s brilliant teaching strategy, which also includes inviting a guest speaker, a football star whom A.J. admires, to talk about the importance of basic school subjects. I believe her ignorance to be faked. Miss Daisy actually seems more brilliant than Sachar’s Mrs. Jewls, though they share personalities and both teach unconventionally.
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