School
Jokes
The following are actual school excuse notes:
This is the
message that the staff at a high school in California voted unanimously to
record on their school telephone answering machine.
This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents
to be responsible for their children's absences and missing homework.
The school and teachers are being sued by parents who want their children's
failing grades changed to passing grades even though those children were absent
15 to 30 times during the semester and did not complete enough school work to
pass their classes.
This is the actual answering machine message for the school:
"Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your
school. In order to assist you in connecting the right staff member,
please listen to all your options before making a selection:
"To lie about why your child is absent - Press 1"
"To make excuses for why your child did not do his work- Press 2"
"To complain about what we do - Press 3"
"To swear at staff members - Press 4"
"To ask why you didn't get information that was already enclosed in
your newsletter and several flyers mailed to you - Press 5"
"If you want us to raise your child - Press 6"
"If you want to reach out and touch, slap or hit someone - Press 7"
"To request another teacher for the third time this year- Press 8"
"To complain about bus transportation - Press 9"
"To complain about school lunches - Press 0"
"If you realize this is the real world and your child must be accountable
and responsible for his/her own behavior, class work, homework, and that it's
not the
teachers' fault for your child's lack of effort: Hang up and have a nice day!"
School Lessons
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Machiavelli: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The ends of crossing the road justify whatever motive there was.
The Bible: And God came down from the heavens, and He said unto the chicken, "Thou shalt corss the road." And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.
Oliver Stone: The question is not "Why did the chicken cross the road?" but is rather "Who was crossing the road at the same time whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?"
Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?
The Sphinx: You tell me.
Buddha: If you ask the question, you deny your own chicken nature.
Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.
Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.
Dr. Seuss: Did the
chicken cross the road? did he cross it with a toad? Yes the chicken crossed the
road, but why he crossed, I've not been told!"