From our delightful Storytellers Committee Chair, Olga, who reflected on March’s Harmony Week theme adaptation, “The Wise Ones” and, playfully, its opposite:

“This morning, a school-teacher was arrested at JFK International Airport, attempting to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, an ancient wooden instrument he called a slide-rule, and a coding device he called an abacus, and claimed was a calculator.

The Attorney-General said the man was known to be a member of the notorious Al’Gebra  movement.

The man was charged by the FBI for carrying weapons of math instruction.

The Attorney General said: “Al’Gebra has caused us many problems in America. They particularly terrorise young people. Their members call each other by secret code names like “x” and “y”, and use a strange set of symbols to communicate, which even the CIA and FBI haven’t been able to decipher. But we’ve determined they are part of the axis of medieval, with a denominator in nearly every country”.

When President Trump was asked to comment on the arrest, he said: ” Well,  I think if God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes”.

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Harmony Week

With the motto ‘Everyone belongs’, Harmony Week encourages us to appreciate our differences and similarities, promote inclusiveness, and show mutual respect for everyone, regardless of race, colour, religion, or background.