Being a school administrator is a whale of a lot harder then being a teacher and Mister Kaufman has this unenviable task. He usually handles his duties with masterful aplomb but in this episode he has come to the end of his rope with all the headaches he has to endure from having to reorder school supplies to finding out a student he tried to help has been arrested. He throws up his hands in utter despair and announces that he is taking a years sabbatical. Pete tries to give him one of his famous pep talks and the students throw him a wonderful surprise party and I think its only then he realizes how much they love him. What brings him back is learning he is being replaced by a martinet who would have made a great prison warden or concentration camp guard. In the end, he reads Pete a letter he wrote to his son urging him not to quit the peace corps admitting he has to eat his own words.
Review of Hail and Farewell
