I was wondering where this story was going. It loses something in the DoE setting.
I don't know how the parrot lobby is going to react to this one. I like the ending, though.
The principal could have told the guy from the DoE that the parrots were just quoting from something by Walter Dean Myers or Gary Soto (if you teach middle school here, you know what I'm talking about), and all would be forgiven.
Ah, parrots that could do read-aloud... If we could just certify them, the DoE would be in business.
...scratch that. Parrots live too long. Imagine the pension costs on those birds!
"...scratch that. Parrots live too long. Imagine the pension costs on those birds!"
Nahhh...just think, with parrots as teachers, they could establish Tier V "for the birds."
This story doesn't ring true, for one reason. Nobody - NOBODY! - has hair like Joel Klein. What is that? A Yiddishe Mullet? A small, dead animal perched on his head? His hair stylist should be disbarred.
And, except for the hair, has anyone else noticed the resemblance between Der Chancellor and the late, great puppet Kukla?
Twins separated at birth?
Oh no!! I LOVED Kukla, Fran, and Ollie when I was a kid! Please refrain from besmirching a fond childhood memory with such vile demeanor as Der MeisterChancellor!!!
Thanks, I needed this today. It's probably old as the hills, but I hadn't heard it 'til now.
My former superintendent would have stabbed them through the heart and blamed the janitor. And fired him for it.
The school superintendent/janitor joke goes like this:
In an effort to add diversity to the workforce, five cannibals were hired by a large school district. During the welcoming ceremony, the superintendent says, "You're all part of our team now, You can earn good money here, and you can go to the cafeteria for something to ear. So please don't trouble any of the other employees."
The cannibals promised to follow the rules.
Four weeks later, the superintendent returns, saying, "You're all working very hard, and I'm very satisfied with all of you. However, one of our janitors has disappeared. Do any of you know what happened to him?" The cannibals shake their heads no.
After the boss left, the leader of the cannibals turned to the others. "Which one of you idiots ate the janitor?" A hand went up, hesitantly, to which the leader responded, "You fool! For four weeks we've been eating assistant superintendents, curriculum directors, supervisors, coordinators and staff developers, and no one noticed anything, and you had to go and eat the janitor!"
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