Son: "Excuse me daddy, but what is the twenty fifth letter of the alphabet?"
Dad: "Y."
Son: "Because I need to know for my test tomorrow."
*In class*
Teacher: "Jay,why are you down today?"
Jay: "Because my mom is at the hospital and my dad is at the police station."
Teacher: "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, dear. Do you want to go home?"
Jay: "Yes, please."
After Jay has left the classroom, the teacher asks the other classmates, "Why is Jay's father at the police station and the mother at the hospital?"
Classmate: "Because his father is a policeman and his mom's a nurse."
Teacher: Where is Sparta these days?
Student: On a map.
At the school where my mother worked, the two first-grade teachers were Miss Paine and Mrs. Hacking. One morning the mother of a student called in the middle of a flu epidemic to excuse her daughter from school.
"Is she in Paine or Hacking?" the school secretary asked.
"She feels fine," said the confused mom. "We have company and I'm keeping her home."