{"id":23367,"date":"2026-07-17T14:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=23367"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:19:18","slug":"ms-brooks-was-having-trouble-with-one-of-her-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=23367","title":{"rendered":"Ms Brooks was having trouble with one of her students."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The teacher asked \u201cHarry, what is your problem\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Harry answered, \u201cI\u2019m too smart for the 1st grade. My sister is in her 3rd grade and I am smarter than she is! I think that I should be in the 3rd grade.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Brooks had had enough. She took Hary to the principals office.<\/p>\n<p>While Harry stayed in the outer office, the teacher explained to the principal what the situation was. The principal told Ms. Brooks he would give the boy a test. If he failed to answer any of the questions, he was to go back to the first grade and behave. She agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Harry was brought in and the condition were explained to him, and Harry agreed to take the test.<\/p>\n<p>Principal! \u201cWhat is 3 x 3\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HARRY \u201c9\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Principal! \u201cWhat is 6 x 6\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HARRY \u201c36\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so it went with every question the principal thought a 3rd grader should know.<\/p>\n<p>The principal looks at Ms Brooks and tells her \u201cI think Harry can go the the third grade.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Brooks says to the principal. \u201cLet me ask him some questions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The principal and Harry Both agree.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Brooks asks, \u201cWhat does a cow have four of that I have only two\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>HARRY, after a moments thought \u201cLegs\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Brooks: \u201cWhat is in your p*nts that you have but I do not have?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The principal wondered, why should she ask such a question.<\/p>\n<p>HARRY replied \u201cPockets\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Brooks: \u201cWhat does a dog do that a man steps into?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HARRY \u201cPants\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Brooks: \u201cWhat starts with C, ends with T. \u201cIs hairy, oval, delicious and contains thin, whitish liquid\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>HARRY; \u201cCoconut\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The principal sat forward with his mouth hanging open.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Brooks \u201cWhat goes in hard and pink, then comes out soft and sticky?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The principal eyes opened really wide and before he could stop the answer, HARRY replied \u201cBubble gum\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Brooks: \u201cWhat does a man do standing up, a woman does sitting down, and a dog does on three legs?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>HARRY \u201cShake hands\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The principal was trembling.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Brooks: \u201cWhat word starts with an \u201cF\u201d and ends in \u201cK\u201d, that means a lot of heat and *xc*tement?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>HARRY \u201cFiretruck\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The principal breathed a sigh of relief and told the teacher. \u201cPut Harry in the fifth Grade\u201d. I got the last seven questions wrong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The teacher asked \u201cHarry, what is your problem\u201d. Harry answered, \u201cI\u2019m too smart for the 1st grade. My sister is in her 3rd grade and I am&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23369,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23367\/revisions\/23369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}