Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 26, 2016

Next question, what does baking soda volcanoes have to do with English class?

SQUIRREL!

This being a normal comic-strip timeline…which means it’s like a mobius strip instead of a film reel…I try to suspend disbelief and accept that he’s always 8, and always in 3rd grade, with Mrs. Olsen for a teacher, whether the school year is starting or ending.

His asking that question makes him seem self-aware…. catching on that he’s stuck in time, like Bill Murray in Groundhog day…knowing what will happen next, all through the school year.Or else we should believe that the most brilliant child in Michigan is now about 24 and repeating the 3rd grade for the 15th time….but I don’t buy that one.

But other than one of those scenarios, how would he know about the volcano experiment every fall?

As for what it has to do with English….except for gym, don’t 3rd graders still have one teacher for everything?In my day we never had separate classes for different subjects till 7th grade….but I don’t know about nowadays.We’ve seen a few other teachers in the school, but I don’t know whether Caulfield is actually in their classes.

Dern! Almost October….man, Who knows where the time goes? .

Peak or peek?

Peak: the double meaning -

Volcano and mental growth

when I was in 5th grade the science teacher set one of these off, just as the fire drill went off. We filed out of the class and when we came back it was all done and we didn’t get to see it.

Is Mrs. Olsen saying that your whole life is downhill after the volcano demo? Man, that’s just sad! Kinda like the star HS quarterback for whom the homecoming game was the pinnacle of his entire life.

October, when the aspens hit their peak colors….breathtaking. I can’t get enough of them.

One of many seminal events I missed in my childhood. To me baking-soda volcanos are just an urban legend.

It is an exceptionally good group of students who would enable a teacher to write on the board like she is today. I always used an overhead projector and thus was able to continue to interact with my students. White boards and computers are even better today. (though NOT cheaper!)

And this is probably why she has had so much trouble with her daughter, wouldn’t you say? Makes psychological sense to me, a retired pro in that field.

I can’t recall if I ever saw that volcano, maybe I did but seen to many ones on tv.