THE LIGHTER SIDE

The classroom was very noisy so the teacher said: "May all the dumb ones stand up."

No one stood up and the class was quiet like a cemetery. Seconds later one kid stood up.

The teacher asked: "Why did you get up? Are you dumb?"

"No," said the kid, "I felt bad to see you stand all alone, Ma’am."

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The ten-year-old boy was failing math. His parents tried everything to get him to do well in school, but nothing worked.

Finally they enrolled him in a Catholic school. From his first day, the boy spent every night poring over his books.

When his first report card arrived home, he had received an A in mathematics.

"Son," his father asked, "what made the difference? The nuns? The textbooks?"

"I’d never taken math so seriously before," the boy admitted, "but when I walked in and saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I knew this place meant business!"