Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 06, 2013

Calvin’s expression in the last panel is classic!!

Calvin’s comment is even more poignant today.

It’s all about recycling, Calvin.

That subject use to come up in our lunch room every now and then.

Only the thought is horrible….

Oh come on Miss Wormwood. That didn’t deserve the dunce cap.

It’s called “soylent green”, a small wafer cookie to feed the masses in the future. It’s called recycling. A prize winning sifi movie. Also a movie of a cookbook on “How to Serve Man”

Wow. This is the first comic strip that I ever remember seeing where Calvin got sent to the corner, instead the principal’s office. Lol Judging by the hat, I think Miss. Wormwood thinks Calvin’s dense. Haha

albatross soup

@Number 6: why ship the “meat” to the 3rd World? why not distribute it where it came from, or you assume those in the so-called 3rd world are cannibals?

THAT CONE IS CLASSIC!! Why didn’t Miss W make Calvin wear it more often?! :)

Ah reckon Ms. Wormwood is a vegetarian.

need some nice coffee…o.kay..

At least now Miss Wormwood has to admit that Calvin does have a point……… on top of his head.

Click here: B.C. (May 2, 2003)

Click here: Peanuts (August 17, 1958)

Good thing you didn’t ask to discuss Benghazi, Calvin… otherwise you’d be in the Principal’s Office instead.

I’m afraid Ms. Wormwood is demonstrating what is wrong with the public school system.

I have to agree with Calvin. Public schools, and many private schools, teach children to be listeners rather than thinkers. We really don’t need more sycophants in the world.

These days any teacher who did that would be fired for hurting the poor boy’s self-esteem.

And where, pray tell, did pocket calculators go? I use mine every day.

@Pharmakeus UbikThat’s very ubikitous.

Cannibalism sounds like an interesting subject to me

More proof that Calvin should be in the Creative Learning progam rather than the high scoring test taking sycophants.

Good point, Calvin.

I love the way he has to sit on that tall stool with his short legs sticking straight out and his arms hanging. Classic.

Calvin thinks ‘outside the book’. There’s more to life than whats in those books.

That reminds me of the old “mystery meat” in our cafeteria.

Definitely not today’s school system. One could never single out a child for criticism much less ridicule. Ms. Wormwood is in for a run-in with the ACLU.

Whats with the hat?!?!?

Calvin always thinks outside the box

Im glad I live in a different world than some people you see I do not like murder ,or eat off of said murder.I think Calvin wanted to discuses Why it was taboo.

Cannibals can get a form of mad cow disease called kuru. You don’t want to put criminals into the food system, in case you need more of a reason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_%28disease%29

That’s what Calvin gets for participating!

He can’t win.

LOL xxx

Ray, you left out the sound effects!

“To Serve Man” is actually an Outer Limits episode.

Oops, my bad. It’s TZ. All that childhood TV trauma gets jumbled up in my head. :)

Oh, I feel ill, my stomach, it turns around!

There’s a bookcase next to Calvin. He can look it up.

“Chances Are” that any fool doesn’t know where to “look it up”.

Maybe Calvin isn’t allowed to read while he is on the stool. ‘Case closed’.

“Calvin, this next question is for you. What significant event took place in the Baltimore area back in 1830?”“Gee, Miss Wormwood, how the heck should I know?! I wasn’t even BORN then! And besides, I’m just a kid, I don’t even know what’s going on NOW, let alone THEN!”Principal: “(Sighhh) Not again!”(Answer: an historic race took place, demonstrating the potential for steam railroading, versus horse-drawn cars.)

@KeepKeeper

“To Serve Man” was an episode of The Twilight Zone. Where super tall aliens were fattening people up, then shipping them to the home planet.

Perhaps he’s read Thor Heyerdahl’s Fatu Hiva where an old native laments the good old days of “enjoying” the enemy..

Sounds like a course in college

I like the idea of discussions in class. My classes were so boring! I would have killed to have a real discussion instead of reciting out of a book. I wouldn’t have eaten anyone tho.

Just a note….Psychopaths often are quite brilliant, even at a young age. Just sayin’

What is that on his head? A kkk hood?

I agree: Calvin was not being stupid, but too curious and “smart”—so the dunce cap is wrong for it’s day (1800s?) and for today, when shaming is not a good pedagogical method.

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But, it is a problem: If No Child should be Left Behind, how do we make sure that the clever and genius children are not left behind in boredom?