Ms Brooks was having trouble with one of her first-grade pupils.
“Johnny, what is your problem?”
Johnny answered, “I’m too smart for the first Grade. My sister is in third grade and I’m smarter than she is! I think I should be in the third-grade too!”
Ms Brooks had had enough, so she took Johnny to the principal’s office.
The principal agreed that he would give the boy a test and if he failed to answer any of his questions he was to go back to the first-grade and behave.
He started by asking Johnny some simple arithmetic.
“What is three times three?”
“Nine, Sir.”
“How much is nine times six?”
“Fifty-four.”
And so it went with every question the principal thought a third-grade should know. The principal looked at Ms Brooks and said, “I think Johnny can go to third grade! He seems smart enough.”
Ms Brooks said to the principal, “Let me ask him some questions?”
The principal and Johnny both agreed.
