It's back-to-school for Emily Elizabeth and Clifford is going to miss her --- he wishes he could go to school too. His friends suggest that perhaps they all could --- they'll create their own school. They soon find that for the most part they want to be teachers and only Clifford wants to be a student. The next thing he knows, he's being dragged back-and-forth from lesson-to-lesson, getting tired out and not sticking in one spot long enough to learn much of anything.