MATH
TEACHER: Balgobin, why are you doing your math sums on the floor?
Balgobin: You tell me to do it without using tables!
GO SLOW
TEACHER: Balgobin why are you late?
Balgobin: Because of the sign.
TEACHER: What sign?
Balgobin: The one that says, "School Ahead, Go Slow."
CROC
TEACHER: Balgobin, how do you spell "crocodile"?
Balgobin: "K-R-O-K-O-D-A-I-L"
TEACHER: No, that's wrong
Balgobin: Maybe. If yuh seh so. But you ask me how I spell it!
H2O
TEACHER: What is the chemical formula for water?
Balgobin: I know!! It's "HIJKLMNO"!!
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
Balgobin: Yesterday you said it's H to
O!
WHO DISCOVER GUYANA
TEACHER: Balgobin, go to the map and find Guyana.
Balgobin: Here it is!
TEACHER: Correct. Now, class, who discovered Guyana?
CLASS: Balgobin!
VERY IMPORTANT
TEACHER: Balgobin, name one important thing we have today that we
didn't have ten years ago.
Balgobin: Me!
I
TEACHER: Balgobin, give me a sentence starting with "I."
Balgobin: I is...
TEACHER: No, no, Balgobin. Always say, "I am."
Balgobin: All right... "I am the ninth letter of the alphabet."
COINCIDENCE
TEACHER: "Can anybody give an example of COINCIDENCE?"
Balgobin: "Sir, my mother and father got married on the same day, and at
the same time."
SAY YOUR PRAYERS
TEACHER: Now, Balgobin, tell me frankly do you say
prayers before
eating?
Balgobin: No sir, I don't have to, my mom is a good cook.
MY DOG, YOUR DOG
TEACHER: Balgobin, your composition on "My Dog" is exactly the same as
your brother's. Did you copy his?
Balgobin: No, teacher! It's the same dog!
SMUDGE RESPONSE
The arithmetic teacher had written 10.9 on the blackboard and had then
rubbed out the decimal point to show the effect of multiplying this number
by ten.
"Balgobin," the teacher asked, "where is the decimal point now?"
"On the eraser!"
JUST A DOT
The kindergarten class had a homework assignment to find out about
something exciting and relate it to the class the next day. When the time
came for the little kids to give their reports, the teacher was calling on
them one at a time.
She was reluctant to call on little
Balgobin, knowing that he sometimes
could be a bit crude But, eventually, his turn came....
Little Balgobin walked up to the front of the class and, with a piece of
chalk, made a small white dot on the blackboard, then sat back down. Well,
the teacher couldn't figure out what Balgobin had in mind for his report on
something exciting, so she asked him just what that was.
"It's a period," reported Balgobin.
"Well, I can see that," she said, "but what's so exciting about a period?"
"Me nah know", said Balgobin, "but, this morning, me sister say she
miss one. Me Daddy get a heart attack. Me mother faint. And the next ting we know, the man next door
shoot he self!"
FACES
Finding little Balgobin making faces at others on the playground, Ms.
Sita stopped to gently reprove the child.
Smiling sweetly, the school teacher said, "Balgobin, when I was a child, I
was told if that I made ugly faces, it would freeze and I would stay like
that."
Balgobin looked up, shook his head and replied, "Well, Ms Sita, you can't say nobody didn't warn yuh.
You should have listened!"