Monday, March 21, 2011

Chicken Scratch

Question:  How is a chicken pecking at its food a metaphor for the public schoolteacher's job?
Hint: The following are from students.
What time is it?
Do you have a pencil?
Can I go to the bathroom?
Do you have a pencil?
What page?
Can I get a drink of water?
Can I go to the nurse?
Do you have a pencil?
Can I go to my locker?
What page?
What are we doing today?
Do you have a pencil?
Can I go to the library?
Do you have a pencil?
Do you have a pencil?
Do you have a pencil?

Answer:  Schoolmarm is chicken feed.  Students are the chicks!

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