A Ribbiting Story
When I was teaching kindergarten and had a cold...
School-jokes Jokes
First Lines To Fake Novels
If you’re a fan of lousy literature, you’re in ...
I Hope You ROTC
In college, my freshman-year roommate was in RO...
Super Droll, More Like
A first-grade teacher can’t believe her studen...
A Wee Little Triumph
Try as she might, our granddaughter couldn’t gr...
Tiptoe Through The Typos
Gauging from these exam excerpts, my college d...
Test Answers From Smart-Alecky Students
• Q:
What’s the name of a
six-sided polygon?
...
For My Next Impression…
I’m now in high school, so when I ran into my t...
Dubious Accomplishment #23
I don’t want to brag or make anybody jealous or...
Projecting Happiness
One hard thing to explain to teens is how legit...
Honor Among Thieves
A mother complained to my wife, a schoolteache...
Who Taught You That?
“Give me a sentence about a public servant,” th...
Thanks, I Think
I recently ran into an old student of mine, who...
There’s a Timeout in His Future
“Hurry up or we'll be late!” shouts a teacher t...
Education Got You Down?
Why was the math book sad?
Because it had so m...
Told You So
"How do you spell toad?" one of my first-grade ...
Ivy League Music
A month after Donald MacDonald started at Harva...
Mark Twain Quote
After a day of listening to my eighth graders e...
Easy Math
Question on second-grade math quiz: "Tony drank...
Plagiarism
At a planning meeting at my college, I congratu...
Happy Trails
When my summer teaching post in the Czech Repub...
True Feelings
During a lecture on the influence of media on t...
Keeping Track
Found in a heap of recycled files donated to ou...
A Good Choice
There was a typo on a test I was taking. Instea...
Fun Class
Seen outside a professor's door at Georgetown C...