Stone Soup by Jan Eliot

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  1. ejcapulet

    ejcapuletGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Looks like someone gets to babysit after all.

  2. lightenup

    lightenup said, 5 months ago

    This is where a summer home school needs to begin. Wally and Joan have some free time with business being slow…

  3. kermitt

    kermitt said, 5 months ago

    So,kid either goes to summer school in the next town over or
    has to repeat a grade?

  4. Yukoneric

    Yukoneric said, 5 months ago

    Can’t sue. They’ve no money.

  5. prasrinivara

    prasrinivara said, 5 months ago

    They can sue Yukoneric–but school-board can appeal (and “win” by simple method of bureaucratic drag-out) if Val wins first-verdict.

    Great idea lightenup–and it also lends to the 2-bird solution of letting Holly “work off” the fees by babysitting Max and Luci.

    kermitt, repeating grades may be Holly’s plan–if she repeats this grade thrice more, she’s home-free to quit!

  6. Macushlalondra

    MacushlalondraGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Holly’s going to be ecstatic until she finds out she will be expected to help babysit.

  7. Lewreader

    LewreaderGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Maybe the disrict will get a Federal stimulus package

  8. morton115

    morton115 said, 5 months ago

    A school in CA, due to a clerical error, shorted the school day by 5 minutes a day, so now their students have to go to summer school for 35 days!

    http://www.scpr.org/news/2009/06/17/schools-chino-extend-school-year-because-clerical-/

  9. Ash

    Ash said, 5 months ago

    I wonder if she’ll care that she got left back instead.

  10. prasrinivara

    prasrinivara said, 5 months ago

    See my earlier comment Ash–that may actually be her plan (I based my calculations on Holly’s strip-age of 13, and Calgary School Boards’ rule of allowing quitting at age 16).

  11. dicatduke

    dicatduke said, 5 months ago

    Tutoring anyone?

  12. Jackknife15

    Jackknife15 said, 5 months ago

    When I was a kid, my mother made me learn the multiplication tables far in advance of the rest of my class. I am very grateful to her, for this. :-)

  13. Rmom

    Rmom said, 5 months ago

    I like lightenup’s idea. Of course, I’m a homeschool mom, who is teaching Algebra 2 to my son this summer. (I read gocomics on our breaks between groups of problems.) He wasn’t behind, just more ambitious than his father & I had planned.

  14. prasrinivara

    prasrinivara said, 5 months ago

    And answering Val’s first-panel question–perhaps Holly thought she could just do status-quo (getting up late-and-surly) for summer-school as during year; or perhaps she’s trying “this is an atrocious dream, but if I go back to sleep in it, I’ll wake up in a pleasant reality”.

    (well, she does wake into a temporarily-pleasant–due to no summer school, all of maybe 2 seconds–reality)

  15. eatteaphonenome

    eatteaphonenome said, 5 months ago

    Time for some summer home schooling. Here’s math a problem for you Holly. Luci defecates her diapers two times a day, and urinates eight times a day. As Wally and Joan are environmentally aware, they use cloth reuasable diapers. Assuming that when Luci defecates she also urinates, how many diapers a day does Holly get to change and wash?

  16. prasrinivara

    prasrinivara said, 5 months ago

    Holly’s reaction-answer for eatteaphonenome: “AUGGHHH!”

    (actually that’s a Peanuts word, but seems like it would work)