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MCISTY

Teacher humor that finally says it out loud.

Pronounced: Muh-Kiss-Tee  •  Yes, it means something.

#MCISTY  •  #IYTYK

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Because somebody had to say it.

Teachers
Say It.
Wear It.

MCISTY is educational humor for people who survived the profession. Not novelty tees. Not inspirational quotes. Artifacts from the classroom, the conference table, and the parent email thread that should have ended three replies ago.

The humor is coded. The audience is specific. Non-teachers are welcome — they'll just have to ask someone.

If you teach, you know.

The Collections

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01 Staff Lounge Wear

Professionally
Worded Emotional
Damage.

Institutional language. Veteran exhaustion. Statements that only become funny because they sound like they survived three rounds of district approval.

First Drop: The Parent Conference Collection

Six shirts. Small back-neck MCISTY #IYTYK mark. Quiet enough to pass. Specific enough to belong.

Bold Colors White type No cartoons No chalkboard fonts No apologies
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If You Teach, You Know — MCISTY #IYTYK Collection Story
02 #IYTYK Collection

If You Teach,
You Know.

Different schools. Different districts. Different subjects. Same conversations. The #IYTYK collection is for the teachers who already understand — no explanation required, no translation provided.

Four shirts. All the moments non-teachers will never fully understand.

Admin Never Calls When It's Something Good First, Show Me Your Credential Lose Your Prep. Then We Talk. I Teach For Free. They Pay Me To Grade.
There's No Tired Like Teacher-Tired

MCISTY — The Teacher's Desk

MCISTY was built for the teachers who still care enough to be exhausted. There is no tired like teacher-tired.

For the hallway comments. The faculty lounge sarcasm. The deleted emails. The lesson plans rewritten during lunch. The parking lot moments nobody talks about.

MCISTY is what happens when you love the job enough to laugh at everything that gets in the way of it.

Teaching is not a job that clocks out. Neither is MCISTY. We believe the people doing it deserve to be seen, to belong, and to laugh.

It's not because teachers don't care. It's because they care constantly.

We validate the people who show up every day. We unite the people who quietly carry the profession. And yes, we entertain, because sometimes laughter is the only thing that beats a copy machine jamming fifteen minutes before the test.

Validate. Unite. Entertain.

In that order.

The shirts are humorous. The mission is real.


03 Not My Alpha — Counselor Collection

Calm Voice.
Catastrophic
Information.

For the counselors who absorb inward so everyone else can keep moving forward. Professionally Contained Emotional Damage.

Four shirts built for the person in the room who already knows how this ends.

Not My Alpha I Saw This Coming Three Semesters Ago
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Not My Alpha — NMA Counselor Collection MCISTY
I Have Read Your File I Have 400 Students and 20 Minutes
04 I Am Not Your Dictionary

Multilingual
Exhaustion
Since 2026.

The language teacher collection: one classroom survival phrase, several languages, zero free translation services.

Available in French, Spanish, Mexican Spanish, German, Korean, Chinese, and English.

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Accessories

Friend-sips
Optional.

The MCISTY signature mug brings the same staff-lounge logic to the only professional development tool teachers actually trust: coffee.

Supporting inclusion, friendship, and belonging.

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MCISTY Signature Mug

You've made it this far.

You must be a teacher, a counselor, or someone definitely in education or education-adjacent. You already know what these shirts mean. You've lived every one of them. Find us on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. TikTok is coming. We know.

#MCISTY #IYTYK #PWED #NMA #VUE

Now on Etsy

We wear it. But we know wall space is sacred.

Posters, prints, and now the Copier Chronicles shirt. The same phrases that belong on a shirt belong on your wall. And sometimes on your back walking out of a staff meeting.

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The Copier Has Chosen Violence — MCISTY Copier Chronicles

New — Copier Chronicles #001

The Copier
Has Chosen
Violence.

You know the moment. Fifteen minutes before first period. Thirty copies to make. A line forming behind you.

MCISTY badge on the front. The verdict on the back. Available in black. Because the copier already took everything else.

Comfort Colors 1717 • Staff Lounge Wear • Copier Chronicles

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The Academic Arm of MCISTY

Gradeness — Turning Assessment into Alchemy

The shirts validate you. Gradeness equips you.

Practical assessment tools and AI-assisted resources built by the same veteran teacher who made these shirts. Nearly 30 years in the classroom. Standards-aligned. Pedagogy-first.

Turning Assessment into Alchemy.

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