Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 20, 2012

I think my old Dad must have passed some genes onto Lucy. When I was doing my final exams at school the results gave me the top mark in English. You couldn’t get a higher one. but all I got from Dad was, “Huh, why couldn’t you have done that in maths”.

Oh the woes of being a “first child.”

Looks like we’ve all been there.

I never liked much civics and history on highschool, but maths was a pain in the neck, so I became a lawyer.

I don’t see what’s wrong with being “average.” Most people are.

Sounded totally like my parents AND teachers while I was growing up. I was a classic underachiever as a kid and suppose I still am to some people, although my definition of “achievement” isn’t theirs…I think being able and happy to live life the way you want to while paying the bills and not being a drain to society isn’t a bad achievement in itself. Never been rich, but I learned the hard way a long time ago that life is more than dollars and cents.

Does Lucy normally get higher grades?

A+ for being a bossyboots!

LOL xxx

I know students who parents equate a C with failing, a B with average and expect only A’s. And these parents are pressuring the kids and the teachers both. Look at high schools now and how many graduates have 4.0 average for all 4 years — it is sometimes 20-30 kids in a graduating class of 200-300. That tells me the kids are not earning their A’s the same way we did 30+ years ago. We only had one 4.0 student out of 270 graduating. There were only 9 of us with just 1 B. One of my daughter’s high school teachers returns the work to the kids repeatedly for corrections until they get them all correct. That’s fine to get them to correct their mistakes and learn from them, but she gives them all 100%. That’s not fair to the kids who did well the first time. Back when this strip was done, an A really meant superior work, 90% or better. A C was truly average at 70-80%.

Reminders of my good old Dad. The only grades I could get that weren’t criticized were A+ and 100. Did wonders for my self-esteem when I got a 98 on a difficult exam and the first words I would hear were, “Why didn’t you get 100?”

Usually Schultz showed Linus to be a genius.

Social studies of any kind was my worst subject. English was ok I was average. Science was better and Math was my best. Never got 100 but I came close. I usually rushed too much on tests. Thats where I did make a couple of goofs. But just enough to get a 97 or 98 depending on the amount of rushing I usually did. Thats all Enjoy the weekend.

Linus got a c in history? Weird.

I showed up at school..

Somebody told me a long time ago that 90% of sucess

was just showing up(They were wrong)

What kind of average? Arithmetic? Geometric? Harmonic?

That was my grades in school. I was always being told by my parents I could do better. Lucy sounds like a perfectionist but Linus is honest about himself.

=)