Wayside school is a little bit different. The building is a high rise, with rooms up on the 20th story, but no 19th story. Only there is a 19th story, but once people go there, they never leave. (Though they may spend time memorizing the dictionary or writing all numbers from 1 to a million in alphabetical order.)
The book starts with a school worker pretending to be a teacher to take delivery of a fragile box. He climbs up all the stairs to deliver to the teacher. The teacher has him hold it while she conducts a spelling be to see who can help him. He struggles with it, but eventually the teacher looks. She determines it is a computer. She then uses it for the lesson on gravity - by dropping it out the window.
There is a boy who gets known by the wrong name, but never bothers to correct people. There is a sub who gets everyone to learn by playing along with their teasing (which came off the boy trying to come clean with his name, and everyone copying him.) There are plenty of other weird things that happen. There are bits and pieces of plot, but most is just enough glue to hold together random humorous stories.
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