For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 12, 2016

They never tell you what the classroom will really be like in teacher’s college. No one would ever go to teacher’s college if they did…

The thumbnail drawing above the strip doesn’t even look like them. It . Anybody know? Or is it that one of the kids is supposed to have drawn it?

They are younger then, than they are now.Try saying that fast 5 times!

Sorry but they are Michael and Elizabeth younger. Remember, if they were the grandchildren, the older child would be the girl, not the younger. This is a portrayal of the children from the book “Something Old, Something New” unless I am mistaken.

Make yourself useful and bold this for me, will ya?

Lynn’s Notes:I can’t say it enough: If it wasn’t for my teachers, I’d have been a lost soul. I owe so much to the men and women who gave me challenges and encouragement, and materials to work with. Most of all they gave confidence and a real sense of worth.

Here’s a Special Valentine from me to some incredibly Special People – Elementary School Teachers !You are truly wonderful, unsung heroes, whose patience, dedication, love, and selflessness goes unrecognized, unappreciated and underpaid.

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY, TEACHERS !!

-—-Linguist

You’ll find out for yourself someday why she says that, Elizabeth. But I won’t say how and spoil it for anyone else!

Is it any wonder there is a 98% correlation betwwen increases in teacher’s salaries and whisky sales ?

In my final year of my B.Ed, one of my instructors said “In 5 years, at least 50% of you will no longer be teaching.” Information that maybe should have been given to us in Year 1. I lasted 3 years, I’m in IT now. Oh well, my teaching career is what allowed me to meet my wife.

I love kids……………..further the way from me the better!

Teacher’s college used to be known as Normal School because it’s purpose was to establish teaching standards or norms.

I don’t think so if Robin is taller than Merry because Merry is older. It looks like Mike and Liz at much younger age, very early in the strip. Lynn begun her strip when Mike was around 5 and Liz an infant. Liz looked like this toddler girl in the bannerhead. Anfd it was Farley chasing them…Mike and Deanna had a different dog. Elly and John had Edgar, Farley’s pup, not Mike and Deanna.

My header banner has Farley, Michael and Elizabeth running.

In our schools, no classroom animals of any kind are allowed anymore.

Is that a boy or a girl talking to Liz today and yesterday?

The GoComics thumbnail is from nearly the end of the strip when John and Elly were middle-aged. Elly’s nose had a tendency to get bigger and rounder as the years went by.

Yeah,comicsssfan is right, I could hardly launch a spitball after a heavy meal of whale blubber,and the 30 km trek over the tundra did’nt help either!

@guiltybystander; one of His best songs. I liked him better before he went electric though.

Paraphrase from Up The Down Staircase “I have meant the adolescent face to face, my college professors obviously have not.”

@Carl42SG

I respect and admire teachers of all grades – I come from a family of educators, some still teaching. My brother taught in high school and middle school for several years. I have been a substitute teacher on the high school level, designed and oversaw special education programs for socially and emotionally maladjusted adolescents for four years, and have been been a part-time lecturer on the collegiate level.

I certainly wasn’t trying to overlook you and other dedicated middle and high school teachers do ( thanklessly ) every day.

While it takes a great deal of courage to walk into a classroom of adjudicated juveniles – I would never have the guts or patience to face a classroom of rambunctious Kindergarteners or 1st or 2nd graders ! I have enough to trouble trying to keep up with my 5 year-old grandson and his 7 year-old sister.

Let me amend my above wishes:

HAPPY ST. VALENTINE’S DAY TO ALL TEACHERS !!

Many people claim that students are not taught as well as when we were children, but I have to disagree. The children having access to computers have broadened horizons and have got children to learn much earlier. My grandchildren are better readers and the basic arithmetic(even in the first grade) is way ahead of what I was taught. Even kindergarden teaches much more than I got.

I certainly hope that they will continue to teach the smarter children and give them things to learn. It seemed to me that 7th grade stopped teaching to the better students and we were held back in learning to the slow students comprehension.