Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 06, 2015

Especially when they easily outweigh you.

Male Newfoundland : 140 pounds11 years old Girl student : 80 poundsThe dog wins.

Well, she could always claim she was dog-tired as an excuse.

I’ve got a friend with to rather large Black Labs…Good dogs…They sleep on either side of her….She’s a fun size person, so she just kinda gets pinned in….Then put a 20 pound cat on top of her……Not only is she the safest woman in town, but the heat could go out in the dead of winter and she’d never know it….

Of course, Frazz knows more about the students than the principal.

…or as i like to say, “I can’t get up. I have a wart in my lap.”.

Just move the bed, even if it means rearranging the room, to allow egress from both sides. It has to be moved each time the bed is made, anyway. That would be a double win. The child could get out and whoever makes the bed will have an easier time. Function over form for this problem.I was mostly lucky in terms of school principals. The assistant principal of my K through 9th school took kids’ input into account if it was well thought through. The principal and the first assistant principal in my HS were great, too. The second assistant principal was an idiot who had useless solutions like sleeping with a window open for serious problems like dealing w battering. Luckily for several of us the actual principal had effective approaches.

At first, I thought you were talking about your wife.

How about a nice Principal story for once — when I was in kindergarten (or maybe first grade), on the last day of school before Christmas break (yes, it was really called that back then), Santa visited our room, and greeted each of us by name. Now, I knew those guys at the stores were just helpers (they had to ask you your name) - but this one knew already - HE HAD TO BE THE REAL DEAL!! Right here, in Mrs. Seally’s class! Incredible! Amazing! A whole class of GOOD KIDS!!

Alas, my sister spoiled it for me — it was the Principal, Mr. Johnson. But he was a wonderful Santa — had a pocket full of lollypops and treats as well.

How many schools allow the janitor to sit in on a principal-student conference?

Pet physics are some of the most difficult ones! My 25 lb. Turkish Angora cat, Spot, preferred to sleep on my chest! It was always a challenge to get out of bed with him!

I love how this comic plays with perspective. It is not that Frazz is talking over the principal, but indicating he simply does not know who or what Boomer is (and is, perhaps, for a moment, shocked).

Commenters like to play with perspective too, I have observed.

Thank you for the correction. The principal does not know who or what Boomer is. Frazz, who apparently is friends with all the kids, does.

Are you by any chance related to a Mrs. Gerrard? She was my English teacher in Grade 9 – very intense about grammar, much feared, but much loved.

My dog learned the command “move” at a young age. Chances are Boomer is familiar with that term as well. All the kid had to say was, Move Boomer, I have to go to school. If that failed, Boomer !!, want a treat? That gets my dog’s attention real quick. She has got a pretty lame excuse.

Big Puma, I appreciate the basic message of what you are saying, everyone, young, old, thin, not so thin, deserves to be treated with respect. In the 2nd panel of today’s strip, body language says a lot more than do the actual words.