Speaker 1: Coming up at the top of the hour, right about
Speaker 1: four minutes after. It's my strawberry letter for today, the
Speaker 1: subject my best friends are my exes.
Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but right now the nephew is here with today's
Speaker 1: prank phone call. What you got for his neph.
Speaker 3: Your baby going back to pre k?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Your baby? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it didn't do too well.
Speaker 3: You baby going back to pre k. We gotta do
Speaker 3: we gotta start over. We just got to start all well,
Speaker 3: baby going back to pre k. Let's go cat though.
Speaker 2: Hello, Yes, I'm trying to reach missus Thomas. Please.
Speaker 3: My name is mister Stapleton. I'm actually the principal over
Speaker 3: at elementary school. You're I'm looking at my records indicating
Speaker 3: that your son, Thomas is going to be starting.
Speaker 2: His first grade. My baby's ready right listen, miss Thomas.
Speaker 3: I've been going through actually all of the children's records
Speaker 3: that will be starting school, and I'm looking at your
Speaker 3: son's grades from his kindergarten and he did good well, No,
Speaker 3: not exactly. I mean there's been a few I actually
Speaker 3: spoke with the teacher and who he was under in
Speaker 3: kindergarten and it seems like he just really wasn't up
Speaker 3: to par as.
Speaker 2: The rest of the children.
Speaker 4: Now his conduct now, he talks, but he gets his work.
Speaker 4: So what else is she saying on that that ain't right?
Speaker 3: Well, what's what it seems to be, ma'am, is that
Speaker 3: his grades weren't up to par as the rest of
Speaker 3: the other children. She did tell me he was a
Speaker 3: disobedient child.
Speaker 4: No, disobedient and talking two different things.
Speaker 3: Come on, Okay, well, man, listen, what we've decided here
Speaker 3: is we're gonna let little actually do another year of kindergarten.
Speaker 4: Oh no, y'all ain't gonna let him do another year
Speaker 4: of kindergarten.
Speaker 2: No sign man, That's that's the only choice I have. No.
Speaker 4: We got our letter in the mail with our report
Speaker 4: called the week after school's started, and it said on
Speaker 4: the back promoted. And if I got to get about
Speaker 4: this couch and go get it, I'm gonna be out
Speaker 4: because I'm telling you right now we will be in
Speaker 4: the first grade kindergarten. Won't that hard. I'm not sure
Speaker 4: what they told you about him, but it must be
Speaker 4: the wrong.
Speaker 3: He doesn't understand, He doesn't color as well as the
Speaker 3: rest of kids. He's all out of he's out of
Speaker 3: the lines when he colored. He doesn't know his numbers completely.
Speaker 3: And that's kind of what we need when you first
Speaker 3: come into into the first grade.
Speaker 4: When I can show you on this paper he did
Speaker 4: satisfactory all the way through. Now you about the man,
Speaker 4: and I'm already sick calling me with some by my
Speaker 4: son blunking kindergarden.
Speaker 3: He ain't that kind of thing, does not color well?
Speaker 4: Man, I say, color ain't got nothing do with that, dad, God, kindergarten.
Speaker 4: He is going to the first grade, and I'll be
Speaker 4: down there on August twenty four.
Speaker 2: No, I will not be able to allow you to
Speaker 2: get into school.
Speaker 4: God, mister, I'm sorry, and let me get Let me
Speaker 4: tell you what. Let me go in and get my
Speaker 4: pencil and pen because I don't live that far from
Speaker 4: the school. And if y'all aren't ready down there causing
Speaker 4: some conflict, I need to get up and go down
Speaker 4: there because I'm not telling my baby when he come
Speaker 4: home today, so he ain't going to the day gun first, ma'am.
Speaker 3: I hate to say it, but I'm gonna have to
Speaker 3: refuse education from him on all the situation.
Speaker 4: You know what, I just went back and put him
Speaker 4: in public school. I know that was a stake in
Speaker 4: the first place. Food which all talking about some coloring?
Speaker 4: Give me your name against sir Stapleton, man, And what's
Speaker 4: that number down there?
Speaker 2: The number here is actually area code.
Speaker 4: Waitman, I got the number of Now mind, I pulled
Speaker 4: up this report card. I got the numbering your name
Speaker 4: on the back of this paper. I tell you what
Speaker 4: I was twenty fourth will be coming in there, going
Speaker 4: to school, and I might make a trip around there
Speaker 4: this evening when I come from the document. I'm not
Speaker 4: want to hear that calling. Ain't got nothing to do
Speaker 4: with nothing else.
Speaker 3: It's not on the color. Here's arithmeticts back. All right, No,
Speaker 3: are you working with him at home?
Speaker 4: When you're doing anything at home every day? What you're
Speaker 4: trying to say, I'm I'm a teen parent.
Speaker 2: I'm just asking, as a parent, are you working with
Speaker 2: your child?
Speaker 4: I'm working with my child every day. He can read
Speaker 4: better than you.
Speaker 2: Probably, No, he can't read, princess.
Speaker 4: I can't read better than you, because honestly, you read
Speaker 4: that wrong on that paper that he's supposed to be
Speaker 4: going back to kindergarten. When I know the paper saying
Speaker 4: from his going to the first grade. And I'm not
Speaker 4: listening to no more this about him going backwards. Now,
Speaker 4: if you got a problem with your paper word, maybe
Speaker 4: you need to go talk to your secretary or somebody
Speaker 4: in there that wrote my baby name down with.
Speaker 2: Your son's name Thomas.
Speaker 4: Ma'am, no, it ain't him, baby, I know it ain't him.
Speaker 4: You're not gonna sit up and tell me my son
Speaker 4: is flocking in kindergarten. He is not going back to
Speaker 4: that kindergarten.
Speaker 2: Don't bring your son down here, as.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what be ready to want me and
Speaker 4: my husband, but we would be down there offic afore
Speaker 4: that pant shoes you to farm everything you hear me,
Speaker 4: I will not.
Speaker 2: Be able to allow him in education that right now.
Speaker 4: I will come down there right now and make that
Speaker 4: correction on that paper for you. Is not going back
Speaker 4: to no kindergarten for no coloring.
Speaker 2: Can you bring him down here and let him color
Speaker 2: for me?
Speaker 4: You talking about coloring arithmetic on all yourself? No, uh no,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry. We would be down at augusta twenty four.
Speaker 4: I would have this poor card in my hand that
Speaker 4: says you have been promoted to the first grade. And
Speaker 4: he's gonna have a mile on his face, and so
Speaker 4: are you.
Speaker 2: I got one one thing I need to tell you.
Speaker 2: Are you listening to me?
Speaker 4: I'm listening. You ain't saying nothing. Yeah, you better say
Speaker 4: something that sounded like the first grade because I'm not playing.
Speaker 4: I would go down to this day gun administrative office
Speaker 4: and I had fired because my son will be in
Speaker 4: that first grade.
Speaker 2: Are you raising your voice? Sat? Who are you raising
Speaker 2: your voice?
Speaker 4: You know you talking crazy to me? I'm talking crazy
Speaker 4: to you.
Speaker 2: What.
Speaker 4: I'm a ground woman. I don't need the best friend
Speaker 4: to you. Why I'm trying to.
Speaker 2: Find did you graduate?
Speaker 4: Honey? I am a college degree person. I have a
Speaker 4: great job. My husband and I do well for ourselves
Speaker 4: and for our children.
Speaker 2: And that's why we know you're not You're not even
Speaker 2: at work right now, Mansten, I'm shaped.
Speaker 4: I told you that when you call him right on
Speaker 4: the doctor to call me now, partner missing my phone call?
Speaker 2: Can you color? Because your son can't come?
Speaker 4: Color? Question is I can't ask me? Can I color?
Speaker 4: What are you white or black? You asked me? Dressed me?
Speaker 4: Am I color?
Speaker 2: No? I asked you? Can you color like your son?
Speaker 4: Here some racist lines in there can you color? No,
Speaker 4: my colorant and me being colored ain't got nothing to
Speaker 4: do with none of this. Is this a race thing?
Speaker 4: You trying to make sure you send him back.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not trying to send him back. I want
Speaker 3: to send him back to color to get his coloring together.
Speaker 4: You what that ain't got nothing to do with nothing.
Speaker 4: And if you are the head person down there, now,
Speaker 4: you aren't competent and you are an illiterate. Call me
Speaker 4: and tell me that my son has to go back
Speaker 4: to the first grade. I got one more thing you
Speaker 4: want mixed up. I'll tell you what I'm through with
Speaker 4: this guy this.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say one more thing and I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: out here.
Speaker 4: Are you listening, I'm listening.
Speaker 3: That's his nephew, Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Speaker 3: You just got pranked by your girlfriend for Latia mo
Speaker 3: bet Felicias.
Speaker 4: I am going to beat him. You're about to get
Speaker 4: to out the plane. I mean, I'm right, no, I'm
Speaker 4: in everything everything. I'm gonna beat her because you know
Speaker 4: I don't play when it comes to my kids.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's all right, all right, but one more question?
Speaker 3: Now, what is the baddest I'm talking about the baddest
Speaker 3: radio show in the land.
Speaker 4: That's Steve Harvey Morning Show. Baby.
Speaker 2: Yes, she was not here for him. I love her, boy,
Speaker 2: I never heard this before. Tell me, but I am
Speaker 2: a Coege degree person. He ain't graduate no more. It's
Speaker 2: just person. He's not coloring in the lines.
Speaker 3: You know, that's just that's that's a requirement at PK.
Speaker 2: You got to be able to color in the lions.
Speaker 2: But we send you on the first question.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, are you asking me my color?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh oh. She was gonna
Speaker 2: turn it into that. Yeah, she was gonna be down
Speaker 2: there with some other issues.
Speaker 3: I hear racism in this yeh yeah, a lawsuit for
Speaker 3: the school boy.
Speaker 2: I hear some racial lines. And now all right.
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Speaker 1: All right, nephew, thank you. Coming up next Strawberry Letters,
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Speaker 2: Friends are my exes. We'll get into it right after this.
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