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MCISTY

Teacher humor that finally says it out loud.

#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

What We Make

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01 I Am Not Your Dictionary

Multilingual
Exhaustion
Since 2026.

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

French English Spanish Mexican Spanish German Korean Chinese
02 The Report Card Collection

What We Typed
Versus What
We Meant.

Every comment sounds professional. Every teacher knows what it actually means. Wear the translation. More dropping throughout grading season.

Report Card Comments 1 Report Card Comments 2 Report Card Comments 3 MCISTY Signature Mug
03 Staff Lounge Wear

Professionally
Worded Emotional
Damage.

Minimalist apparel for conference season, PD days, and the moments when documentation already exists. Black garments. White type. No apologies.

Further Parental Communication Due Dates Are Not Decorative Academic Outcomes Tell Your Parents I Can Explain It Again

Staff Lounge Wear by MCISTY

Staff Lounge Wear

Professionally
Worded Emotional
Damage.

First Drop: The Parent Conference Collection

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

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

Wear the Damage

Design Language

Black garments White type No cartoons No chalkboard fonts No apologies

The Dictionary Collection

Choose your next words wisely.

Chinese Dictionary — MCISTY
English Dictionary — MCISTY
German Dictionary — MCISTY
Korean Dictionary — MCISTY
Spanish Dictionary — MCISTY
French Dictionary — MCISTY

The Report Card Collection

What we typed versus what we meant.

Report Card Collection — MCISTY
Report Card Collection — MCISTY
Report Card Collection — MCISTY

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
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#IYTYK

If You Teach, You Know.

MCISTY works because it assumes you already understand. No explanation required. No translation provided. The humor is the recognition. The belonging is the point.

Non-teachers won't fully get it. That's not exclusion. That's identity. Every profession develops its shorthand. Teachers never had theirs on a hoodie. Until now.

Enter the Store
MCISTY — The Teacher's Desk

MCISTY was built for the teachers who still care enough to be exhausted.

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.

We believe teaching is one of the most important callings in the world. We also believe the people doing it deserve to be seen, to belong, and to laugh.

Not because they don't care. Because they care constantly.

We validate the people who show up anyway. We unite the people who quietly carry the profession. And yes, we entertain, because sometimes laughter is the only thing keeping the copy machine jam fifteen minutes before the test from winning.

Validate. Unite. Entertain.

In that order.

The shirts are humorous. The mission is real.

If you teach, you know.

MCISTY Badge

You made it this far.

You definitely teach.

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