Jan Eliot's funny and irreverent Stone Soup follows the saga of an extended, blended family, starring two working-mom sisters living just across the fence from each other. Val and Joan share life with their opinionated mother, a middle-school diva and 10-year-old tomboy, a reclusive teenage boy, a wild preschooler and his new baby sister...and of course Wally, the ultimate nice guy who steps into his stepdad shoes with grace amid the chaos. Working-parent hassles, pre-school tantrums, middle-school angst, love and the single mom... it's all here in Stone Soup.
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Magnolia42 said, 4 months ago
The topic is not the important thing here; it’s having done the paper. Just like children reading – it’s not important what they read, but that they learn how to read and enjoy it.
Tue Elung-Jensen said, 4 months ago
Certainly would like to know what was read – if she compared them to bands of the ages consisting of all males, and saying they were boy bands (as yesterdays conversation here :p), or actually mentioned boy bands being a concept group with specific characters going being a certain “type” of guy to reach the entire demographic.
jeffc42
said, 4 months ago
Yet, she still didn’t do the research, but had someone do it for her. How is this learning? Doing the research is the point of writing the paper.
ghostkeeper said, 4 months ago
Just musing here, I think Aunt Joan’s last words in yesterday’s strip would have been better with “And we’re back to square NONE!” Truly truly reflective of Holly’s ‘approach’ to doing the work!
Rx71Wm29 said, 4 months ago
The one thing Holly is learning is how to “cheat”. She’s learning THAT skill really well!
Macushlalondra said, 4 months ago
If she couldn’t write a paper about something she’s interested in how will she do when she’s assigned a topic she’s not interested in?
whmIII said, 4 months ago
Hmph…still not a good example.
georgiiii said, 4 months ago
Whoa – Holly is in junior high school. Every kid I ever knew needed at least some help on the first one. Since this teacher didn’t do it in baby steps, it’s perfectly okay for her get help at home. As long as she learned something from the experience.
comicsssfan said, 4 months ago
My public school was not too rigorous with papers, especially in middle school.
dblbaraje said, 4 months ago
Back in the dark ages, we had book reports, etc but never ten page term papers until high school. I have supported myself my whlole life now, so I think I turned out somewhat responsible.
iced tea said, 4 months ago
Carnegie Mellon University in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh,PA now offers a course: the complete history of the Beatles: their music and all. So imagine the papers students have to do who take this course.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
@Rx71Wm29
Where do you get that from? She was caught she was given a chance to do an A paper to get a low D or high F. Don’t see where her learning helped her thievery.
IwannaReadTheFunnyPapers said, 4 months ago
It sounds to me like Aunt Joan would have to know how to find information in order to show Holly how she could do it herself. That’s not cheating, that’s teaching. Hooray Aunt Joan!!!!
snakemama said, 4 months ago
mom doesn’t look impressed by the topic of learning
somebodyshort said, 4 months ago
There’s nothing wrong with providing guidance for a kid doing a project. In fact parents should be involved with homework all the time. Just sending a kid to their room to do the homework does very little without supervision.