"Dear Mr. Mac," the phone call began. "We need your help on this day."

"Apparently some of our secrets got out! Our confidence has been betrayed!"

"S -s-s-secrets?" I gasped. "I don't know what you mean! What are you talking about?"

"Don't get cute! We know it was you!" and that's when they started to shout.

I'm still a bit shaky this morning. They had me cold and I knew

the educational world was turned upside down because of yesterday's poem to you.

The school board car pulled up to my house and spirited me off to someplace.

I don't know where. I couldn't see a thing. Then they shined a bright light in my face.

"Are you insane?"

"What were you thinking?"

"Do you realize what you have done?"

"Our security's destroyed. Someone must pay!" and it looked like I was the one!

Because I told you the secrets of how the School Board gives you your grades

the entire system was abandoned. Major changes had to be made.

The Iowa lab was completely shut down. Workers there are now husking corn.

The NASA base was dismantled. Employees there are forlorn.

As for the people that worked in Berlin, no one knows where they went.

German officials are very angry. I've created an international incident!

As I was being interrogated, I blubbered and babbled and cried.

Finally they had pity on me and one of my captors just sighed,

"Stop whining and sniffling and crying. You're acting just like a wimp!"

"We're letting you go, but if you do this again, we're giving your job to the chimps!"

I ran all the way home. It was nearly 5! What was I going to do?

I barely had enough time to get home, and make Morning Work for you.

So, here's your Grammar Giggles and here's your Morning Math .

And I promise to you, that never again, will I take a turn down that path!

My lips are sealed. I am a vault. Secrets I know will stay where they're at.

Oh by the way, did I ever tell you how they grade the FCAT?