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Subj:     School3 Jokes (Gz)
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Includes the following:  Did You Know - Movie (S526b in Supp)
.........................Shakespear In Elementary School (S507 in Supp)
.........................Teacher Reads Chicken Little Story (S477 in Supp)
.........................Pre-School Test (S463 in Supp)
.........................Interview With A Teaching Prospect (S410 in Supp)
.........................Kissing And Telling At School (S408 in Supp)
.........................Man Meets Perky Young Lady (S401b in Supp)
.........................Blonde Waves In Supermarket (S464 in Supp)
.........................Private California Schools Errors (S399 in Supp)
.........................Helping A Student Learn To Pronounce 'R' (S386b in Supp)
.........................Neighbor Follows Tim To School (S364b in Supp)
.........................Bush Visits School (S346b in Supp)
.........................Harry Wants To Jump To 3rd Grade (S341 in Supp)
.........................The Sneeze (S341b in Supp)
.........................First Grade Teacher Explains Politics (S312 in Supp)
.........................Man In Hot Air Balloon Is Lost (S310 in Supp)
.........................Little Johnny Learns About Electricity (S435b in Supp)
.........................Little Johnny Uses 'Fascinate' (S408b in Supp)
.........................Little Johnny Sees Two Dogs Mating (S382 in Supp)
.........................Little Johnny Has A Substitute (S308 in Supp)
.........................Classroom Computer Crashes (S300 in Supp)
.........................The New School Prayer (S297 in Supp)
.........................The Blueberry Story (S276b in Supp)
.........................Palisades High School Answering Machine (S471)
.........................Teacher Gets To Know Kids (S270b, S468)
.........................Teacher Gets To Know Kids II (S357, S569c)
.........................Night Before School Starts (S239)
.........................Presents 'To The Teacher' (S232)
.........................New School Prayer (S169, S468b)
.........................Man Dies And Goes To Heaven (S166, S337)
.........................Japanese Student's First Day (S161, S480b)
.........................Female Teacher Kicks Three Boys Out of Class (S151, S529c)
.........................What A Teacher Does (S129b)
.........................Laws Of Teaching (S129b)
.........................Homework Policy (S119)
.........................PUZZLE - Calculating Teacher's Age (S119)
.........................Class Learns Stories With Morals (S116, S487b)
.........................Little Johnny Learns About Sex In School (S111)
.........................Teacher's Salaries (S105, S325)
.........................The Sister's 'List Of Names' Assignment (S92, S393b)
                         Short School Jokes (S91)
..............................Irish Girl Calls Demolition Company (S511)
..............................Public Schools - Definition (S397b in Supp)
..............................Teacher's Salaries (S394 in Supp)
..............................Teacher Questionaire (S391b in Supp)
..............................Teacher-Pupil Joke (S351b in Supp)
..............................Teacher-Pupil Joke2 (S383 in Supp)
..............................Teacher-Pupil Joke3 (S390b in Supp)
..............................Teacher-Pupil Joke4 (S390b in Supp)
..............................School Board Cancels Advanced English (S334 in Supp)
..............................Letter To The First Grade Teacher (S300 in supp)
..............................Nursery Students Learn Of Freedom (S285b)
..............................Boys Vs Girls In School (S254b)
..............................Teaching German (S251)
..............................A Test Of Courage In School (S248)
..............................Teacher Arrested (S244)
..............................Illinois Teacher Tests (S241)
..............................Teacher Discusses Blood Circulation (S216, S451)
..............................Note Sent Home From The Teacher (S206)
..............................Teacher's Discipline Solution (S186)
..............................Stand Up If You're Stupid (S135)
..............................Teaching Vincent Math (S130)
..............................Columbine Jokes (S129)
..............................Kindergardners See Flag (S120)
..............................How Long Should This Report Be? (DU)
..............................Mother Wakes Son For School (S91)
..............................Little Johnny In A Spelling Bee (S46)

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Subj:     Palisades High School Answering Machine (S471)
          From: jtgalvan on 1/23/2006
from Palsisades Charter
High School Symbol
 The listen to and read about the fictional answering machine
 message from Palisades Charter High School click 'HERE'.

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Subj:     Teacher Gets To Know Kids (S270b, S468)
          From: gheckman on 3/31/2002
      and From: hellgunner50 on 1/8/2006

 It's the first day of school in Houston and the teacher
 thought she'd get to know the kids by asking them their
 name and what their father does for a living.

 The first little girl says: "My name is Mary and my daddy
 is a postman."

 The next little boy says: "I'm Andy and my Dad is a mechanic."

 Then one little boy says: "My name is Jimmy and my father
 is a striptease dancer in a cabaret for gay men."

 The teacher gasps and quickly changes the subject, but
 later in the school yard the teacher approaches Jimmy
 privately and asks if it was really true that his Dad
 dances nude in a gay bar. He blushed and said,

 "No,"  the boy said, "He works for the Democratic National
 Committee and is helping to secure the nomination of Hilary
 Clinton, but I was too embarrassed to say that in  front of
 the other kids."

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Subj:     Teacher Gets To Know Kids II (S357, S569c)
          From: JBCARY1 on 12/4/2003
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Little Johnny
from Yahoo! Images
 Little Johnny was in his 4th grade class when the teacher
 asked the children what their fathers did for a living.
 All the typical answers came up - fireman, policeman,
 salesman, etc...  Johnny was being uncharacteristically
 quiet and so the teacher asked him about his father.

 "My father's an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret and takes
 off all his clothes in front of other men.  Sometimes, if
 the offer's really good, he'll go out to the alley with
 some guy and make love with him for money."

 The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly
 set the other children to work on some coloring, and took
 Little Johnny aside to ask him, "Is that really true about
 your father?"

 “No," said Johnny, "He plays for the OAKLAND RAIDERS, but
 I was too embarrassed to say so."

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Subj:     Night Before School Starts (S239)
          From: tnkr on 8/24/2001

 Actually, I think this applies more to our teacher nightmares
 than the thoughts of our kids.....which, while I think about
 it, it says a LOT for us as their teachers.

                      Look Out!!!
                               by Max Fatchan

             The witches mumble horrid chants,
           You're scolded by five thousand ants,

             A martian pulls a fearsome face
             And hurls you into Outer Space,

         You're tied in front of whistling trains,
            A tomahawk has sliced your brains,

           The tigers snarl, the giants roar,
               You're sat on by a dinosaur.

       In vain you're shouting ''Help'' and ''Stop''
            The walls are spinning like a top,

             The earth is melting in the sun
             And all the horror's just begun.

         And, oh, the screams, the thumping hearts
           That awful night before school starts.

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Subj:     Presents 'To The Teacher' (S232)
          From: BennoRo on 7/5/2001
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Little Johnny from Yahoo! Images
 It was the first day of school and the first grade teacher
 arrived to find her students seated in class talking with
 one another.  She noticed that on the blackboard someone
 had written " T T T l A ."

 This was unusual...  The teacher asked "Children, who
 wrote this on the board?"

 Little Johnny raised his hand, "I did teacher."  So she
 asked, "What does it mean?"

 He said, "To the teacher, one apple."  He went up and
 gave her an apple.  She said, "Thank You."

 The next morning she arrived to find another cryptic note
 on the blackboard:  " T T T l O "

 "Children, who wrote this on the board?" the teacher asked.

 Bobby raised his hand and said "I did teacher."  She
 asked, "Well Bobby, what does that mean?"

 He said, "To the teacher, one orange," and he gave her
 an orange.  "Very good," says the teacher, "Thank You."

 The following day when she got to class she noticed
 another note:  " F U C K l T ."

 This was disappointing.  The teacher roared "WHO WROTE
 THAT ON THE BOARD?!"  Little Pepito raised his hand,
 "I did teacher."  "Well what does this mean, Pepito?"

 "It means:  From us Chicano kids, one tamale."

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Subj:     New School Prayer (S169, S468b)
          From: TAdams on 4/18/00
      and From: DoctorDebt on 1/10/2006

 Since the Pledge of Allegiance and The Lord's Prayer are
 not allowed in most public schools anymore because the
 word "God" is mentioned.... a teen in Bagdad, Arizona
 wrote the New School Prayer.

 Now I sit me down in school
 Where praying is against the rule
 For this great nation under God
 Finds mention of Him very odd.
 If Scripture now the class recites,
 It violates the Bill of Rights.
 And anytime my head I bow
 Becomes a Federal matter now.
 Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
 That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
 The law is specific, the law is precise.
 Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.
 For praying in a public hall
 Might offend someone with no faith at all.
 In silence alone we must meditate,
 God's name is prohibited by the state.
 We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
 And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.
 They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
 To quote the Good Book makes me liable.
 We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
 And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
 It's "inappropriate" to teach right from wrong,
 We're taught that such "judgments" do not belong.
 We can get our condoms and birth controls,
 Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
 But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
 It's scary here I must confess,
 When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
 So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
 Should I be shot;
 My soul please take!

  Amen

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Subj:     Man Dies And Goes To Heaven (S166, S337)
          From: JOKE-OF-THE-DAY.com on 04/02/2000
      and From: LABLaughs.com on 7/8/2003

      Moved to

      'Being Asked About Salary At The Pearly Gates'

      in HEAVEN2

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Subj:     Japanese Student's First Day (S161, S480b)
          From: RFSlick on 2/26/00
      and From: drgolfmd on 4/5/2006

 It was the first day of school and a new student, Toshiba,
 the son of a Japanese businessman, entered the fourth grade.

 The teacher greeted the class and said, "Let's begin by
 reviewing some American history.  Who said "Give me Liberty,
 or give me death?"  She saw only a sea of blank faces,
 except for that of Toshiba, who had his hand up.

 "Patrick Henry, 1775," said the boy.

 "Now," said the teacher, "Who said 'Government of the
 people, by the people, for the people shall not perish
 from the earth?"

 Again, no response except from Toshiba: "Abraham Lincoln,
 1863."

 The teacher snapped at the class, " All of you should be
 ashamed. Toshiba, who is new to our country, knows more
 about her than you do."

 As she turned to write something on the blackboard, she
 heard a loud whisper: "Damned Japanese." "Who said that?"
 she demanded.

 Toshiba put his hand up. "Lee Iacocca, 1982," he said.

 At that point, feeling completely disgusted by Toshiba's
 classroom knowledge superiority, a student in the back
 sighed, "I'm gonna throw up".

 Teacher says "who said that?".

 Again, Toshiba raises his hand and says "George Bush to
 Japanese Prime Minister, 1991".

 Now furious, another student yells, "Oh yeah? well suck
 my #@%?...."

 Once again, it's Toshiba with the answer, "Bill Clinton,
 to Monica Lewinsky, 1997.

 Now with almost a mob hysteria someone said, " You little
 shit if you ever say anything else I will have you killed."

 Suzuki is frantic and yells at the top of his voice, "Gary
 Condit to Chandra Levy 2001."

 The teacher fainted.   As the class gathered around, one of
 the kids says, "Oh damn, now we're in big trouble!"

 Suzuki says, "Saddam Hussein, 2003."

 Finally someone throws a eraser at Suzuki, someone else
 shouted "Duck"!

 Teacher asked "Who said that? "

 Suzuki says, "Dick Cheney 2006!"

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Subj:  Female Teacher Kicks Three Boys Out of Class
       (S151, S529c)
       From: JOKE-OF-THE-DAY.com on 12/21/1999
Little Johnny
from Yahoo! Images

 A young female teacher was giving an assignment to her
 Grade 6 class one day.  It was a large assignment so she
 started writing high up on the chalkboard.  Suddenly there
 was a giggle from one of the boys in the class.  She
 quickly turned and asked, "What's so funny Pat?"

 "Well teacher, I just saw one of your garters."

 "Get out of my classroom," she yells, "I don't want to see
 you for three days."

 The teacher turns back to the chalkboard.  Realizing she
 had forgotten to title the assignment; she reaches to the
 very top of the chalkboard.  Suddenly there is an even
 louder giggle from another male student.  She quickly turns
 and asks,"What's so funny Billy?"

 "Well miss, I just saw both of your garters."

 Again she yells, "Get out of my classroom!"  This time the
 punishment is more severe, "I don't want to see you for
 three weeks."

 Embarrassed and frustrated, she drops the eraser when she
 turns around again.  So she bends over to pick it up.  This
 time there is an burst of laughter from another male student.
 She quickly turns to see Little Johnny leaving the classroom.

 "Where do you think you are going?" she asks.

 "Well teacher, from what I just saw, my school days are over."

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Subj:     What A Teacher Does (S129b)
          From: smiles on 6/22/99

 This is from a brand new teacher ......

 Let me see if I've got this right. You want me to go into
 that room with all those kids, and fill their every waking
 moment with a love for learning.

 Not only that, I'm to instill a sense of pride in their
 ethnicity, behaviorally modify disruptive behavior, and
 observe them for signs of abuse.

 I am to fight racism, patriotism, the war on drugs and
 sexually transmitted diseases, check their backpacks for
 guns and raise their self-esteem.

 I'm to teach them good citizenship, sportsmanship and fair
 play, how and where to register to vote, how to balance a
 checkbook and how to apply for a job, but I am never to ask
 if they are in this country illegally.

 I am to check their heads occasionally for lice, maintain a
 safe environment, recognize signs of potential antisocial
 behavior, offer advice, write letters of recommendation for
 student employment and scholarships, encourage a respect for
 the cultural diversity of others, and, oh yeah, teach, always
 making sure that I give the girls in my class fifty percent
 of my attention.

 I'm required by my contract to be working on my own time
 (summers and evenings) and at my own expense towards
 additional certification, advanced certification and a
 master's degree, to sponsor the cheerleaders or the
 sophomore class (my choice) and after school.

 I am to attend committee and faculty meetings and
 participate in staff development training to maintain my
 current certification and employment status.

 I am to be a paragon of virtue larger than life, such that
 my very presence  will awe my students into being obedient
 and respectful of authority.

 I am to purchase supplies, room decorations, bulletin board
 supplies, supplies for children who can't afford them, and
 luxury items such as scissors, glue, scotch tape, paper
 clips, note book paper, red pens, and markers with my own
 money as there is no money in the budget for these  items.

 I'm to do all of this with just a piece of chalk, a few
 books and a bulletin board, and on a starting salary that
 qualifies my family for food stamps in many states.

 Is that all? Work like you don't need the money, Love like
 you've never been hurt before, and Dance like no one is
 watching!

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Subj:     Laws Of Teaching (S129b)
          From: smiles on 6/22/99

 Disaster will occur when visitors are in the room.

 A subject interesting to the teacher will bore students.

 The time a teacher takes in explaining is inversely
    proportional to the information retained by students.

 A meeting's length will be directly proportional to the
    boredom the speaker produces.

 The problem child will be a school board member's son.

 When the instructor is late, he will meet the principal
    in the hall.

 If the instructor is late and does not meet the principal,
    the instructor is late to the faculty meeting.

 New students come from schools that do not teach anything.

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Subj:     Homework Policy (S119)
          From: Anaise on 5/10/99

 Here is an explanation of our homework policy :

 Students should not spend more than 90 minutes per night.
 The time should  be budgeted in the following manner:

 --15  minutes looking for assignment
 --11  minues calling a friend for the assignment
 --23  minutes explaining to parents why the teacher is mean
       and just does not like children
 ---8  minutes in the bathroom
 --10  minutes getting a snack
 ---7  minutes checking the TV Guide
 ---6  minutes telling parents that the teacher
       never explained the homework
 --10  minutes sitting at the kitchen table waiting
       for Mom to do the assignment

 LONG TERM ASSIGNMENTS:

 These are given the night before they are due. This explains
 the name "long term".  It is a long term commitment to time
 that begins at 9:30PM and ends at 11:50PM.  It is important
 that the whole family is involved in the project.  It is
 imperative that at least one family member race to Walmart
 for posterboard, and that one family member ends up in tears
 (does not have to be the student).

 One parent needs to stay up and complete the project.  The
 other parent needs to call the school and leave a message
 that the student is out sick.

 It is not necessary to have the student's name on the
 assignment.

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Subj:     PUZZLE - Calculating Teacher's Age (S119)
          From: collins2 on 5/11/99

 Mrs. Porter's students were singing "happy birthday" to her
 when playfully they warbled, "How old are you?"

 "It's not polite to ask a lady about her age, but there is
 a way in which you can figure it out for yourselves...by
 doing a little math."

 With that, the instructor presented the following mind-
 stretchers to her curious scholars.

 "Some months have 30 days; others have 3l.  But how many
 have 28?

 "If a basket's filled with 20 apples and you take away
 seven of them, how many do you have?

 A farmer has 80 head of cattle and all but 30 are sold.
 How many does he have left?

 "How many animals of each gender did Moses take on the Ark?

 "How many birthdays does the average person have?"

 Smiling, Mrs. Porter directed, "Now, all that you have to
 do is take the answers to each of the five questions and
 add them together.  The figure you come up with will tell
 you which birthday I'm celebrating today."

 By our calculations, the answers are:
 l2 (every month has at least 28 days).
 7 (you took them).
 30 (the cattle that weren't sold).
 0 (Noah, not Moses, captained the Ark).
 l (you are only born once).

 With a little addition, it's elementary, the teacher
 turned 50.

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Subj:     Class Learns Stories With Morals (S116, S487b)
          From: Tom_Adams on 4/14/99
      and From: Joke-Of-The-Day-Mail.com on 5/23/2006
Little Johnny from Yahoo! Images

 The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: get
 their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end
 of it.  The next day the kids came back and one by one began
 to tell their stories.

 Kathy said, "My father's a farmer and we have a lot of egg-
 laying hens.  One time we were taking our eggs to market in
 a basket on the front seat of the pickup when we hit a bump
 in the road and all the eggs went flying and broke and made
 a mess"

 "And what's the moral of the story?" asked the teacher.

 "Don't put all your eggs in one basket!"

 "Very good," said the teacher. "Now, Lucy?"

 "Our family are farmers too.  But we raise chickens for the
 meat market.   We had a dozen eggs one time, but when they
 hatched we only got ten live chicks.  And the moral to this
 story is, don't count your chickens until they're hatched."

 "That was a fine story Lucy.  Johnny do you have a story to
 share?"

 "Yes, ma'am, my daddy told me this story about my uncle Bob.
 Uncle Bob was a pilot in Vietnam and his plane got hit.  He
 had to bail out over enemy territory and all he had was a
 bottle of whiskey, a machine gun and a machete.  He drank
 the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn't break and then
 he landed right in the middle of 100 enemy troops.  He
 killed seventy of them with the machine gun until he ran
 out of bullets, then he killed twenty more with the machete
 till the blade broke and then he killed the last ten with
 his bare hands."

 "Good heavens," said the horrified teacher, " What kind of
 moral did your daddy tell you from that horrible story?"

 "Don't f*** with Uncle Bob when he's been drinking."

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Subj:     Little Johnny Learns About Sex In School (S111)
          From: RFSlick on 99-03-13
          (See 'Fourteen Year Old Has First Sex' on Sex1
Little Johnny
from Yahoo! Images
           and 'Having Sex With Your English Teacher' in Sex2)

 Little Johnny returns from school and upon being greeted by
 his mother is immediately asked, "What did you learn today
 in school Johnny?"  He answers that he learned about sex
 today in class.  His mother asked him just what was taught.
 Johmmy said he learned about vaginas, penises, Coitus, human
 anatomy and fondling genitalia including masturbation.  His
 mother became enraged and sent him to his room telling him
 to await the arrival of his father from work.

 In the interim she called her sister on the phone and
 explained the tragedy to her.  Her sister being a few years
 her junior and a little more current with the times, persuaded
 her that these are the 90's and that sex is now being taught
 in school.

 Mother went to Johnny's room, and entering without first
 knocking, walks in on him, and catches him masturbating.
 She immediately say's to him, "When you get done with your
 homework, you can watch T. V."

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Subj:     Teacher's Salaries (S105, S325)
          From: RFSlick on 4/24/2003
          Typed by AJSwitzer

 I'm fed up with teachers and their hefty salary schedules.
 What we need is a little perspective.  If I had my way, I'd
 pay these teachers myself.  I'd pay them babysitting wages.
 That's right-instead of paying these outrageous taxes, I'd
 give them $3.00 an hour out of my own pocket.  And I'm only
 going to pay them for 5 hours, not for any coffee breaks.

 That would be $15.00 a day-each parent should pay $15.00 a
 day for these teachers to babysit their child.  Even if they
 have more than one child, it's still a lot cheaper than
 private daycare.

 Now, how many children do they teach a day-maybe 20?  That's
 $15.00 times 20 equals $300.00.  But remember, they only work
 180 days a year!  I'm not going to pay them for all these
 vacations.  $300.00 times 180 equals $54,000 (Hold on a minute,
 I think my calculator isn't working right.)

 I know teachers will ask what about those teachers who have
 10 or more years of experience and a Master's degree?  Well,
 maybe (to be fair) they could get minimum wage, and instead
 of just babysitting, they could read the kids a story or
 something.  We could round that off to $5.00 an hour, times
 20 children.  That's $500.00 a day times 180 days.  That's
 $90,000.

 Huh?  Wait a minute, let's get a perspective here.  Baby-
 sitting wages are too good for these teachers.  Where did
 we put that salary schedule?

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Subj:     The Sister's 'List Of Names' Assignment (S92, S393b)
          From: LADY97BBW on 98-10-31
      and From: Imogenelumen on 8/11/2004

 Please Note: This is a warm story and not a joke.

 He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint
 Mary's School in Morris, Minn.  All 34 of my students were
 dear to me, but Mark Eklund was one in a million.  Very
 neat in appearance, but had that happy-to-be-alive attitude
 that made even his occasional mischievousness delightful.
 Mark talked incessantly.  I had to remind him again and
 again that talking without permission was not acceptable.
 What impressed me so much, though, was his sincere response
 every time I had to correct him for misbehaving - "Thank
 you for correcting me, Sister!"  I didn't know what to make
 of it at first, but before long I became accustomed to
 hearing it many times a day.

 One morning my patience was growing thin when Mark talked
 once too often, and then I made a novice-teacher's mistake.
 I looked at Mark and said, "If you say one more word, I am
 going to tape your mouth shut!"  It wasn't ten seconds
 later when Chuck blurted out, "Mark is talking again."  I
 hadn't asked any of the students to help me watch Mark,
 but since I had stated the punishment in front of the
 class, I had to act on it.

 I remember the scene as if it had occurred this morning.
 I walked to my desk, very deliberately opened by drawer
 and took out a roll of masking tape.  Without saying a
 word, I proceeded to Mark's desk, tore off two pieces of
 tape and made a big X with them over his mouth.  I then
 returned to the front of the room.  As I glanced at Mark
 to see how he was doing, he winked at me.

 That did it!!  I started laughing.  The class cheered as
 I walked back to Mark's desk, removed the tape, and
 shrugged my shoulders.  His first words were, "Thank you
 for correcting me, Sister."

 At the end of the year, I was asked to teach junior-high
 math.  The years flew by, and before I knew it Mark was
 in my classroom again.  He was more handsome than ever
 and just as polite.  Since he had to listen carefully to
 my instruction in the "new math," he did not talk as much
 in ninth grade as he had in third.  One Friday, things
 just didn't feel right.  We had worked hard on a new
 concept all week, and I sensed that the students were
 frowning, frustrated with themselves - and edgy with one
 another.

 I had to stop this crankiness before it got out of hand.
 So I asked them to list the names of the other students
 in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space
 between each name.  Then I told them to think of the
 nicest thing they could say about each of their class-
 mates and write it down.  It took the remainder of the
 class period to finish their assignment, and as the
 students left the room, each one handed me the papers.
 Charlie smiled.  Mark said, "Thank you for teaching me,
 Sister.  Have a good weekend."

 That Saturday, I wrote down the name of each student on
 a separate sheet of paper, and I listed what everyone
 else had said about that individual.  On Monday I gave
 each student his or her list.  Before long, the entire
 class was smiling.  "Really?"  I heard whispered.  "I
 never knew that meant anything to anyone!"  "I didn't
 know others liked me so much."  No one ever mentioned
 those papers in class again.  I never knew if they
 discussed them after class or with their parents, but
 it didn't matter.  The exercise had accomplished its
 purpose.  The students were happy with themselves and
 one another again.

 That group of students moved on.  Several years later,
 after I returned from vacation, my parents met me at
 the airport.  As we were driving home, Mother asked me
 the usual questions about the trip - the weather, my
 experiences in general.  There was a lull in the
 conversation.  Mother gave Dad a side-ways glance and
 simply says, "Dad?"  My father cleared his throat as he
 usually did before something important.

 "The Eklunds called last night," he began. "Really?"  I
 said.  "I haven't heard from them in years.  I wonder
 how Mark is." Dad responded quietly.  "Mark was killed
 in Vietnam," he said. "The funeral is tomorrow, and his
 parents would like it if you could attend."  To this
 day I can still point to the exact spot on I-494 where
 Dad told me about Mark.  I had never seen a serviceman
 in a military coffin before.  Mark looked so handsome,
 so mature.

 All I could think at that moment was, Mark I would give
 all the masking tape in the world if only you would talk
 to me.  The church was packed with Mark's friends.  Chuck's
 sister sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."  Why did it
 have to rain on the day of the funeral?  It was difficult
 enough at the graveside.  The pastor said the usual
 prayers, and the bugler played taps.  One by one those who
 loved Mark took a last walk by the coffin and sprinkled
 it with holy water.  I was the last one to bless the
 coffin.  As I stood there, one of the soldiers who acted
 as pallbearer came up to me.  "Were you Mark's math
 teacher?" he asked.  I nodded as I continued to stare at
 the coffin. "Mark talked about you a lot," he said.  After
 the funeral, most of Mark's former classmates headed to
 Chuck's farmhouse for lunch.  Mark's mother and father
 were there, obviously waiting for me.  "We want to show
 you something," his father said, taking a wallet out of
 his pocket.  "They found this on Mark when he was killed.
 We thought you might recognize it."

 Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn
 pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped,
 folded and refolded many times.  I knew without looking
 that the papers were the ones on which I had listed all
 the good things each of Mark's classmates had said about
 him. "Thank you so much for doing that," Mark's mother
 said.  "As you can see, Mark treasured it."

 Mark's classmates started to gather around us.  Charlie
 smiled rather sheepishly and said, "I still have my list.
 It's in the top drawer of my desk at home."  Chuck's wife
 said, "Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album."
 "I have mine too," Marilyn said.  "It's in my diary."
 Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook,
 took out her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list
 to the group.  "I carry this with me at all times," Vicki
 said without batting an eyelash.  "I think we all saved
 our lists." That's when I finally sat down and cried.
 I cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never
 see him again.

 THE END

 Written by:  Sister Helen P. Mrosla
 The purpose of this letter is to encourage everyone to
 compliment the people you love and care about.  We often
 tend to forget the importance of showing our affections
 and love.  Sometimes the smallest of things, could mean
 the most to another.  The density of  people in society
 is so thick that we forget that life will end one day.
 We don't know when that one day will be.  Please, I beg
 of you, to tell the people you love and care for, that
 they are special and important.  Tell them, before it is
 too late.

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Subj:     Short School Jokes

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Subj:     Irish Girl Calls Demolition Company (S511 in Contractor)
          From: darrell94590 on 11/14/2006
Drawing from Ginny Prior Media Services

 This 1,500 KB radio broadcast is a call by a young Irish
 girl to a demolition company.  She asks them to destroy
 her school.  You can listen to the funny recording on my
 web site by clicking 'HERE'.
 

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Subj:     Nursery Students Learn Of Freedom (S285b)
          From: morinhome on 7/17/2002
 For the Fourth of July a nursery school teacher took the
 opportunity to tell her class about patriotism.

 "We live in a great country," she said. "One of the
 things we should be happy is that, in this country, we
 are all free."

 One little boy came walking up to her from the back of
 the room.  He stood with his hands on his hips and said:
 "I'm not free.  I'm four."
 

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Subj:     Boys Vs Girls In School (S254b)
          From: jerry on 12/10/2001
 Why a man needs a woman.

 A University of Hong Kong study claims that while girls
 perform better academically in all-girl schools, boys'
 academic results suffer in all-boy schools.

 Even in co-educational classes girls outperformed boys
 in most subjects.

 Specifically girls did much better in science without
 boys around and boys did particularly badly in the arts
 without girls being around.

 While kind of on the subject, reading this reminded me
 of something Red Skeleton once said:  "We all make
 mistakes, but married men find out about theirs sooner."

 South China Morning Post 1-Dec-01
 

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Subj:     Teaching German (S251)
          From: jerry on 11/19/2001
 Newt Gingrich, for his attempt to explain how teachers
 should and should not be selected:

 "You can now get a certificate to teach German by sitting
 through enough classes, but if you speak German, you can't
 teach German, you can't teach German if you don't have a
 certificate.  So you can have a German teacher who can't
 speak German but they have the certificate so they can
 teach, even though they can't teach.

 If you can speak it, you can't teach it, even if you could
 teach it.  Are you with me so far?"
 

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Subj:     A Test Of Courage In School (S248)
          From: jerry on 10/30/2001
 Schools who don't keep their students busy enough.

 Bonehead award two goes to three teenagers in Mount
 Vision, New York from the Morris Central School who,
 as a test of courage, or more accurately a testament
 to their stupidity, shot each other in the leg with a
 .22 caliber rifle.

 They've been charged with second-degree assault.  They
 will recover from their physical wounds.

 Associated Press via Newsday (Long Island, NY) 27-Oct-01
 

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Subj:     Teacher Arrested (S244)
          From: jerry on 10/1/2001
 Bonehead award four, a ''stupidest excuse in the world
 bonehead award'' goes to a Milwaukee Public School High
 School teacher who, after being arrested for possession
 of child pornography, after asking the school librarian
 to make a copy of a video showing two of the students
 having sex, explained that he wanted a copy because,
 among other things, he wanted to strengthen his student/
 teacher relationship with the young man.

 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 14-Sep-01
 

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Subj:     Illinois Teacher Tests (S241)
          From: bonehead on 9/10/2001
 According to the Chicago Sun-Times, 5,243 Illinois teachers
 failed 24 out of 25 teacher competency tests, many of the
 tests being at the eighth and ninth grade level.

 Chicago Sun-Times 6-Sep-01
 

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Subj:     Teacher Discusses Blood Circulation (S216, S451)
          From: RFSlick on 3/18/2001
      and From: LABLaughsClean on 9/7/2005 (S451b - political2)
 A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the
 blood.  Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, "Now,
 class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know,
 would run into it, and I would turn red in the face."

 "Yes" the class said. "Then why is it that while I am
 standing upright in the ordinary position, the blood
 doesn't run into my feet?"  A little fellow shouted,
 "Cause yer feet ain't empty."
 

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Subj:     Note Sent Home From The Teacher (S206)
          From: Joke-Of-The-Day.com ON 1/5/2001
 Joey's teacher send a note home to his mother saying, "Joey
 seems to be a very bright boy, but spends too much of his
 time thinking about sex and girls."

 Joey's mother wrote back the very next day, "If you find a
 solution, please advise. I have the same problem with his
 father."
 

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Subj:     Teacher's Discipline Solution (S186)
          From: rlr29 on 8/22/00
 A school teacher injured his back and had to wear a plaster
 cast around the upper part of his body. It fit under his
 shirt and was not noticeable at all.

 On the first day of the term, still with the cast under his
 shirt, he found himself assigned to the toughest students
 in school.  Walking confidently into the rowdy classroom,
 he opened the window as wide as possible and then busied
 himself with desk work.

 When a strong breeze made his tie flap, he took the desk
 stapler and stapled the tie to his chest.

 Discipline was not a problem from that day forth!

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Subj:     Stand Up If You're Stupid (S135)
          From: JOKE-OF-THE-DAY.com on 8/27/99
Little Johnny
from Yahoo! Images
 A new teacher was trying to make use of her psychology
 courses.  She started her class by saying, "Everyone who
 thinks they're stupid, stand up!"  After a few seconds,
 Little Johnny stood up.  The teacher said, "Do you think
 you're stupid, Little Johnny?

 Little Johnny replied, "No, ma'am, but I hate to see you
 standing there all by yourself."
 

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Subj:     Teaching Vincent Math (S130)
          From: PGSP4LIFE on 7/28/99
 Teacher: If you had one dollar and you asked your father
          for another, how many dollars would you have?
 Vincent: One dollar.
 Teacher: You don't know your arithmetic.
 Vincent: You don't know my father.
 

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Subj:     Columbine Jokes (S129)
          From: Bawdy.Net Collage #308 on 6/21/99
 2 Black Trench coats: $140
 2 Semi Automatic Rifles: $1200
 2 Ski Masks: $10
 2 Ammunition Magazines: $19.

 The look on your classmates' faces: Priceless.
 Some things money can't buy. For everything else,
    there's MasterCard

 Q: What is the difference between The Trench Coat Mafia
    and NATO in Kosovo?
 A: About a year of meticulous planning....
 

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Subj:     Kindergardners See Flag (S120)
          From: mbucher on 5/20/99
 The kindergarten teacher was showing her class an encyc-
 lopedia page picturing several national flags.  She
 pointed to the American flag and asked, "What flag is this?"

 A little girl called out, That's the flag of our country."
 "Very good," the teacher said. "And what is the name of our
 country?"  'Tis of thee," the girl said confidently.
 

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Subj:     How Long Should This Report Be? (DU)
          From: Joke-of-the-day on Friday, April 9,1999
          at http://www.joke-of-the-day.com/
 Student: "How long do you want this report to be?"

 Teacher: "I would like you to think of this paper
 much like a lady's dress - long enough to cover the
 subject, yet short enough to keep it interesting."
 

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Subj:     Mother Wakes Son For School (S91)
         From: icohen on 98-09-22
 Early one morning, a mother went in to wake up her son.

 "Wake up, son. It's time to go to school!"

 "But why, Mom?  I don't want to go."

 "Give me two reasons why you don't want to go."

 "Well, the kids hate me for one, and the teachers
  hate me, too!"

 "Oh, that's no reason not to go to school.  Come on
  now and get ready."

 "Give me two reasons why I *should* go to school."

 "Well, for one, you're 52 years old.
  And for another, you're the PRINCIPAL!"
 

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Subj:     Little Johnny In A Spelling Bee (S46)
          From: humorlist-digest V1 #270 on 97-12-08
Little Johnny from Yahoo! Images
 Little Johnny was in a spelling bee in class.  He had to
 spell the word and use it in a sentence.  The teacher asked
 him to please spell the word "ear".

 Little Johnny stood up and proudly said "E-A-R".  Then to
 use it in a sentence, he pretended to take a big hit off a
 joint and then while pretending to have his lungs full of
 smoke he pretended to pass the joint to Little Suzy and
 said, "Ear."
 

 In 1900 one in ten US adults couldn't read or write.  Only
 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
 

 A teacher asked Lil' Suzy, "Please punctuate the following
 sentence: 'Fun fun fun worry worry worry.'"

 Lil' Suzy thought for a moment and began her reply, "Let's
 see 'Fun period fun period fun no period worry worry worry!'"
 

 Never let your schooling interfere with your education. (S11)

 Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge, others
 just gargle. (S11)

 If there were no schools to take the children away from
 home, the insane asylum would be filled with mothers.
   -- Edgar Watson Howe (S11)

 If you took all the students that felt asleep in class and
   laid them end to end, they'd be a lot more comfortable. (S11)

 One advantage of being an elementary school teacher as
   opposed to working as a high school teacher is that it's
   easier to get a parking space every morning. (S11)

 If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
 - Derek Bok, president of Harvard (S11)

Quotes from Famous Economist:
   Football has as much to do with Education as Bullfighting
      has to Agriculture.
   Sports makes higher education palatable for students who
   do not belong.  -- Veblen
 

 A school board in Maine that had 'Black Beauty' pulled from
   the shelves in the mistaken belief that it had something
   to do with sexy females of African ancestry.
 

 Strikebound L.A. teachers rejected the school districts
   latest offer saying it was copied from a previous offer,
   contained too many erasures and misspellings, and was
   turned in late.

From the L.A. Times:  70% of big city schools now have metal
   detectors.  This is a great idea.  Now they can tell if a
   student has really been shot or if they're just faking it
   to get out of a test.

 Clarence Notree, a Chicago gym teacher, reacted to a gunman
   shooting at his students by herding the stunned children
   out a door to safety, but was himself hit in the hand.
   After a hearing, the Illinois Industrial Commission awarded
   the 19-year veteran $13,447 in Worker's Compensation for
   his injury.  But the Chicago Board of Education appealed
   the ruling, saying that saving the children's lives was
   not part of a physical education teacher's job.  After an
   outcry, the Board agreed to approve the claim.

 A student questioned his 0 on a test.  "But these are the
   same answers as Tran, and he got hundred percent." "Tran
   had a different test."

 Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

From: ipkis on 97-12-06 (S46)
 Miss Jones had been giving her second-grade students a
   lesson on science.  She had explained about magnets and
   showed how they would pick up nails and other bits of
   iron.  Now it was question time and she asked, "My name
   begins with the letter `M' and I pick up things.  What
   am I?"  A little boy on the front row said, "You're a
   mother."

From: RFSlick on 98-04-08
 As long as there are tests, there will be prayer
   in public schools.

 Time is the best teacher. Unfortunately it kills
   all its students!

From: RFSlick on 98-05-08
 "It's our our job to prepare kids for what they will be
    using tomorrow, not what people are using today ..."
      --- Houston K-12 teacher

From: RFSlick on 98-05-13
 i souport publik edekashun.

From: auntieg on 98-05-20
 My kid had sex with your honor student.

From: humorlist-digest V3 #25 on 99-01-27
 The Minnesota Board of Education voted to consider
   requiring all students to do some "volunteer work"
   as a prerequisite to high school graduation.

From: JOKE-OF-THE-DAY.com on 3/13/00 (S165)
 "Everyone has feelings, except for snakes and principals."
     -- Donna Maria G, age 9

From: mombear1 on 7/22/2001 (S234)
 "In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line
 up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest.
 What is the logic?  Do tall people burn slower?"
   -- Warren Hutcherson

From: KMACINTY on 8/2/2001 (S237)
 "You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in
 a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with
 clue musk and did the clue mating dance." - Edward Flaherty

 (It's perfect for students who don't do their homework and
 wonder why their grades are falling.)  -- Kirsten
 

From: Joke-Of-The-Day on 1/7/2002 (S258)
 "I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own
 coroner.  We used to write essays like 'What I'm Going
 to be If I Grow Up.'"  -- Lenny Bruce

From: LABLaughs.com on 2/17/2002 (S264, S473)
 "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those
  who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,
  unlearn, and relearn."  -- Alvin Toffler

From: LABLaughs.com on 3/5/2002 (S266c)
 "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with
  an open one."  -- Malcolm S. Forbes

From: LABLaughs.com on 3/28/2002 (S269c)
 Human history becomes more and more a race between
 education and catastrophe. -- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

From: Newsweek, October 2,2000, Page 42 (S191)
 "By the time students graduate from high school, they've
  spent a full year being taught by substitutes,...

From: LABLaughs.com on 4/21/2002 (S273c)
 "There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented
  by a good teacher."  -- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

From: LABLaughs.com on 5/6/2002 (S275)
 "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and
  three-fourths theater."  -- Gail Godwin

From: LABLaughs.com on 7/26/2003 (S339)
 A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his
 influence stops.  -- Henry [Brooks] Adams (1838 - 1918)
 

 It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in
   creative expression and knowledge.  -- Albert Einstein

 Teaching should be such that what is offered is preceived
   as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty."  -- Albert Einstein


From: LABLaughs.com on 9/17/2002 (S294b)
 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
   -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

From: Anon. Junior on 4/13/2006 (S482c)
 In the first place, God made idiots.  That was for practice.
 Then he made school boards.  -- Mark Twain.

  It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others.
   -- Mark Twain (in Quotes2)

From: LABLaughsClean on 1/7/2008 (S573b)
 "Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned."
    -- Mark Twain

From the book "Teacher Laughs" by Allen Klein (S582b)
               Gramercy Books, New York
 When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name,
 it means trouble.  -- Mark Twain

 For more Twain quotes see 'Twain on Government' in POLITICAL2.
 

From: LABLaughs.com on 6/8/2002 (S279b)
 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
   -- Will Durant

From: LABLaughs.com on 7/30/2002 (S287b)
 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the
 21st century.  -- Perelman

From: dogbyte on 9/6/2002 (S292b)
 I suhport publik edukashun
 

 Q: Why is a diploma like a condom?
 A: It's rolled up when you get it, it represents a lot
    of effort, it's worthless the next day.

 Q: Why did the doctor bring his eyechart into the classroom?
 A: Because he wanted to test the pupils!

 Q: Did you hear about the teacher who was fired
    for being cross-eyed?
 A: She couldn't control her pupils.

Neal's Nasty Free Filthy Daily Dirty Joke For 2/9/97
 Q: Did you hear about the new sex ed film on VD
    that they're showing to first graders?
 A: It's called See Dick Run.

From: Scott's Joke Archive on 5/31/97
 Q: What do you call a guy who never farts in public?
 A: A private tutor.

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