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Old Tue Mar 17, 2020, 09:29am
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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Dead Presidents ...

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Also, is the capital of Kentucky called Louieville, or Louisville?
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The locals says Lew-uh-vul.
Nice try. Care to try again?

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It’s actually called Frankfort.
Excellent.

After more than thirty years in the classroom, I have a plethora of middle school jokes.

Every year my eighth graders were asked by their U.S. History teacher to pick a U.S. president and write "president report". The students would enter my science class talking about which president they would choose. I always suggested my favorite president, Benjamin Franklin, who before becoming president, invented the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, was a printer and a publisher, founded post offices and libraries, and studied electricity and ocean currents. And, after all, he is famously pictured on the one-hundred dollar bill.

Every year a few students would take me seriously, some middle school kids can be overly trusting of teachers and can be very gullible. After a few years of doing this the history teacher actually came down to my science classroom one day and scolded me in front of my students.

I deserved it.
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