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WHOSE FAULT IS IT?
CERTAINLY NOT MINE . . .

The college professor said,
"Such wrong in the student is a shame,
Lack of preparation in high school is to blame."

Said the high school teacher,
"Good heavens, that boy is a fool.
The fault, of course, is with the middle school."

The middle school teacher said,
"From such stupidity may I be spared,
They send him to me so unprepared."

The elementary teacher said,
"The kindergartners are block-heads all.
They call it preparation; why, it's worse than none at all."

The kindergarten teacher said,
"Such lack of training never did I see,
What kind of mother must that woman be."

The mother said,
"Poor helpless child, he's not to blame
For you see, his father's folks are all the same."

Said the father,
at the end of the line,
"I doubt the rascal's even mine!"


--Anonymous
Printed in the English Journal


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