Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 02, 2015

How about a black guy wearing a shirt saying Jehovah Witnesses for Trump?

Religious tracts? Get thee and me behind…a couch!

Maybe they could go as the Village People.They are “trick or treating” aren’t they?

Wait, the teachers are going out to people’s homes? No Way! All we ever did was the (very few) parents come to the school and meet the teachers consisting of 10 minutes per classroom before they sounded the bell to change or interrupted making announcements.

Teachers make house-calls now? My son’s school has an open house where we (parents) go to them (teachers).

Yeah,never heard of teachers going to visit parents at their homes. That’s a lot to ask of them.

This was very funny today!!!! In smaller communities in Michigan, the tradition of going to personally greet the newest kids (Kindergarteners) is a well liked tradition. It has been MOSTLY abandoned, however, as most school districts are too big and too spread out to make it workable in most circumstances today.Most schools now have an “Open House” where parents bring in kids to get to have a “lower stress” introduction to the school and teacher prior to the start of classes.

The teachers union would never tolerate such a thing.

Never heard of teachers going around to meet the parents at their homes. They waited to meet the parents at parent/teacher conferences.

I read this story a while ago, and this strip reminded me of it.

(Recently the Narrator had been bothered by religious groups coming to the door and asking about our preferences, so to speak. He/she worked a third shift and it has gotten to the point where they begin timing his/her awake hours vs. their sleep hours and sometimes showing up minutes after they gotten out of bed, usually too groggy to fight back. Finally fed up with it, their older sister and the Narrator decided to have some fun with them.)

Religious Person: “Hello. We were wondering if you’ve found Jesus yet?”

Narrator: dead stare “Found? You mean you LOST him!? Oh, my god; he’s missing?! SIS!! JESUS IS MISSING!”

Sister: ” OH, NO, NOT AGAIN!”

Narrator: “Get the dogs! We’re going out looking for him!”

Sister: “I’ve got the helicopters on standby!”

(The two at the door are now noticeably weirded out and are backing away as

The Narrator reached out and grabbed the arm of one of them.)

Narrator: “You help, too! We gotta find him!”

Religious Person: “Uh, no, we’re just… going to go now…”

(The two both hurried away, actually leaving skid marks as they drove off. They never saw those particular two again.)

comicsssfanStrange, Mormon missionaries in our town spent most of their time at the library using those computers, mostly looking for jobs.

So funny! Here they have “mandatory” open houses to try to get more parents to go. I usually go unless the timing interferes with my classes.

never had a situation where teachers met parents at home … always parents in school

Good and proper use of connected balloons in panel one, coming from the same character.

Even way back in 1955 when I was in Kindergarten, we had “open house” for the teachers to meet the parents. Never did any of my teachers or my son’s teachers, for that matter, visit our house.

I’ll never forget my very first week of school as a five-year-old first grader in the two-room schoolhouse in our village. For the first four days the principal gave me a note to take home to my mother. Mom would read each note, but wouldn’t respond.

On Friday the principal drove me home. He and Mom had a brief conversation over coffee. He left.

My grandmother asked what happened. It seems that each note told my mother to keep me home because I was too young to be in school. My mother asked him if I could keep up with the schoolwork. He replied that I could. She then asked him whether or not I was being bullied by older kids. He replied that I was getting along very well with everyone. Mom then put both hands on her hips, looked him square in the eye and asked, “Well then, what’s the problem?” There were no more notes after that.

Honestly, do the teacher go around to visit their new-coming students and their parents at their home in the U.S.?

If a school-representative came to my home when I was a kid, I would really known that I was in BIG trouble.

A little bit different for my kids due to the fact that most of their teachers where colleagues and friends to theirs’ mother.

My daughters went to a Waldorf school with a very small class. Their teacher met with all the parents at their homes. They had the same teacher from Pre/K through 5th. When she switched to another class, their new teacher did the same. However, as i said, it was a small class, so it was easier for her todo.

It would be nice if people would read more of the comments before replying themselves. I think we had about 6 comments here like “teachers visit students!” and 3 or 4 “yes, in some districts, but not most.”