Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for December 28, 2021

Tara Starr?

Bring the joy with you.

Harsh.

Then choose something else, Luann. Create your own destiny!

Finding a job vs creating a job opportunity?

Traditional tutoring vs Virtual Reality tutoring

You screwed up Luann. Accept it and move on.

Luann misses hanging out with her intellectual/ developmental peers.

Do you need to have a teaching license to work at a daycare school, or just be there? Because if Luann likes working with kids, day care seems more her speed than teaching.

Then again since Greg is working the Ugly Student angle (misdirection) I suspect the student will be the new boyfriend.

But Lu when you tutor you have that one-on-one vs. 30 screaming kids.

I get the impression Luann wasn’t doing much teaching at Kids First.

You might find out that it is fun, Luann, expecially when you realize you have successfully helped a struggling student.

Luann, you need to take charge. If you think your student isn’t paying attention, MAKE them. Let them know they need to be there, you don’t and if they won’t take the lesson seriously, they can find another tutor. Luann, they are paying for your time. Remind any student who loafs of this.

Maybe, just maybe, you don’t want to be a teacher.

Only reason Luann’s future is bleak is because of the writing is bad..True fact

Methinks Luann is a perpetual child who wants to play forever and being a daycare/after school teacher makes that possible. She doesn’t want a job that is actual….work.

Drum Roll…..Who is the kid going to be???

Hard lesson learned Luann…

She’s actually got a point in that final panel.

They cut her hours by half at Kid1st and was moved to a different school. Luann needed a second job. The tutoring job sounds like a full-time job.

Yep! The mentoree will be a heart throb!

Just don’t let it be Stephanie or Kip. They’ve worn out their welcome with me.

It’s nice to see how Luann has a very realistic idea of what tutoring is, while Bernice seems to have a more idealistic view of it. This to remind us that Bernice is, after all, a dreamer while Luann is more pessimistic and avare of reality. Now I wonder how will be the child, or teen, who Luann will tutor. They might be a surprise to her.

It looks like Luann is drinking a coke!

Mmmm, VR game lessons. Could be fun. Can she handle that? Will she be able to teach him to not get gum on the headset?

You know Luann – that kid is wearing a VR headset and cannot see you. Those chairs like he is leaning back in can sometimes go over backwards with the lightest of touch…

maybe it will be Shannon she has to tutor…

She’ll probably end up enjoying it like nothing else, but only time and G+K will tell.

Buzzcut looks like he’s grabbing a handful there.

I thought Faye was the only tutoring job she’s had so far and that went very well.

News flash here, Luann: Many aspects of being a teacher are not going to be fun. If it’s fun you’re looking for you’re going for the wrong career.

Funny. Some students of all age groups need tutoring, so if Luann is at an organization that is not age-specific, then she could get to tutor an early-grade student. Others have commented earlier this job could lead to a romance. Well, there football players who need tutoring.

She wants to stay with little kids because they’re easier to teach.

Good money in tutoring. But I’d rather teach.

I tutored a high school kid once. He had all the smarts he needed, he just didn’t want to do it.

Panel 2: Is that Brad?

So, essentially, being at “Kids 1st” allowed Luann to be a kid herself. Being a tutor requires that Luann be an adult…. And apparently, she isn’t quite ready for the grown-up world yet.

How did Luann land a tutoring job? She has never struck me as the most academically talented individual.

At least give it a try before deciding you will hate it.

Hmm.

Maybe the person to be tutored will NOT be Fay.

After all, she was never deemed worthy enough to gain a bio in the “Characters” section at the top of the page. So Fay might be one and done.

Might NOT be some handsome but brainless new hunk either. But that’s a good thing. There’ are enough of THEM running around loose in the World as it is.

I doubt it would Jack. Waaaaaay too obvious.

Nil, maybe? Nah. I think Nil is smart. Plus he’d never sit still long enough to be “tutored” without making wisecracks.

(On the other hand, Luann tutoring either Nil or Jack would greatly “trouble” Bernice’s house. So there’s that.)

And the “student” being Les would make Me far too happy. So he is out.

The Great Fear is, that whomever or whatever Luann’s about to “instruct” might wind up being the “Student from the Infernal regions.” Some young Snot 100 times Worse than Shannon. But Lu can’t walk away because she needs this “job.”

Dark Times May soon overtake our young heroine. :-(

I agree with the other commenters. Luann would do well in a day care job. Kids 1st is basically just an after school day care program anyway, and she has CPR training, which would make her a strong candidate. Or…maybe Frank and Nancy are ready for a new business venture?

Unlike teaching a whole class a tutor is judged by the progress of one student. If the student needs and wants the help all goes well, but if they need help because they are a slacker in class the tutor might not help. Then the parent says, I used tutor Luann and she didn’t help my kid at all.

Luann, you have no one to blame but yourself for what happened at Kids First!

I thought she could’ve just had her hours cut. It seems like tutoring would be a good job to pair with Kids 1st

She needs to major in Early Childhood education.

Bern hasn’t figured out that LuAnn is low lever elementary. But LuAnn could find herself tutoring Jack.

This couldn’t possibly lead to shenanigans… could it? Nope.

Welcome to teaching. Once you get beyond third grade it’s the toughest job I’ve ever had! The little ones ARE more fun but the older ones NEED you the most. Just don’t expect them to admit it!

So Luann’s gonna be tutoring a slacker manchild who lives in his parents’ basement?

The painful lesson of actions vs consequences.

Welcome to the Real World of Teaching,, Luann. You should ask why there are so many Teaching positions open.

Having done it… she has a point

Linus is not aging well…

Luann is still kind of a kid – that’s why she misses her little kids. Lu – Time to step out into the big bad world!

As a teacher, you’ve got to at least try to liven things up a little

Whoa! I just realized that I saw the second frame all wrong! I thought the goggles were on his forehead, the 2 dots were his eyes, the bubble was his nose, and the chin line was his mouth!! I couldn’t understand why Greg would draw such a crazy looking character with the big schnoz! Haha now I can see it. Does anyone else see what I see?

I hope its Faye, I liked her. It could be Shannon at this point. I would laugh it if turned out to be Nil and Bern gets jealous.

I have a hunch her student will either be a stud, or Faye.

Okay did anyone else think the bubble was his nose and his nose, his eyes?!? My eyes were definitely playing tricks on me this morning. Lol!!

I guess there’s no tutoring in art which is what I thought Luann would want to teach, i.e. to small children. I never thought of her teaching academic subjects except maybe to the early grades e.g. 3rd and 4th.

I tried tutoring once. The kid tried to force me to do his homework for him, and when I wouldn’t, he walked out.

G&K have never suggested before that Luann had been working at Kids First solely because it was fun – implying that she didn’t care at all about the students, or about getting experience for her eventual career as a teacher. If this was real life, we’d be asking whether Luann was depressed, or whether maybe she needed to re-consider her career choice. Instead, we’re being asked to view Luann as a lazy slacker with no life goal but to have fun and take the easiest possible route through life. I’m beginning to think this comic strip has run its course.

Speaking as an ex-tutor, this one is easy. If the kid acts like this, I’m not gonna bust my azz to try to help him. I still get paid. And everyone who’s paying the bill knows it.

Good start at resuming this arc. At least Luann has a job prospect. Hopefully it’ll work out better than she imagines.

The crew cut kid with the black shirt and the glasses. He’s wearing this puppet… … … nah, this is too easy…

I’ve tutored. Don’t like it. Kid is usually unmotivated and forced into it by their parents.

Luann enjoys teaching to the extent that it involves no work, but not any further….

What kind of party were they having where she was Queen?

I wonder if Luann envisions tutoring this way because she has firsthand experience on how she acted.

Aren’t there daycare centers she can work at? When I was fresh out of highschool one of my very first jobs was working at a daycare center as a floater. That meant that when one of the permanent teachers or assistants called in sick, I would work in their classroom that day. I worked in all the rooms except the infant room because you had to have a special certification or experience to work with babies.

I spend s lot of time defending characters whose story is not being properly understood by those who project here, but then this strip invites projection. Something about young adults in a fantastical world, somewhat analogous to the real one we have to live in is the culprit, i think. Let’s not talk about hidden agendas. But this set of panels makes me feel great in my Luann commentary. Here the two friends show s full relationship, honesty, true talent in counseling by Bern, indicative of a real future as a counselor, and as a good honest, helpful friend. Luann being forced to confront her limitations and consider her strengths by her closest friend. There are all kinds of career choices that would use Luann’s strengths in a good, entertaining and interesting way and I will go out on a limb and predict that by and by Luann will figure it out, and we will go along for her journey. Hilarity will ensue though. I responded to someone today that said how do I get all this “sh.t” from reading a toon? This is one example of how.