Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for August 27, 2022

Not only Harvard, but Princeton & Yale – also!!!

:-O

Tell her to run a little faster.

What a cutting remark.

If she could cut with scissors she’d probably be overqualified for Harvard these days.

Wren is not cut out for preschool?

No cutting through the red tape with this tremendous tragedy.

More likely no scissors cos of Hammie

I guess brain surgery is also out of the question?!

Reminds me of the episode on “Everybody Loves Raymond” where Geoffrey couldn’t cut paper an had to be held back just like Raymond did when he was Geoffrey’s age.

When my older daughter was moving from preschool to kindergarten she had to take a test. It was mostly things like sight words, colors, shapes, etc. There was one section where she didn’t do well; it had to do with children’s rhymes, like the Old Woman in the Shoe, etc. I didn’t read those to her; I read her other stories that she enjoyed. I didn’t know she was going to be TESTED on those!!! (Incidentally, her score wasn’t low enough for her not to pass.) (Wow, going back & reading it, I’m realizing how messed up all that is.)

I read where a kid was entering a school after doing kindergarten in another school. The new school said he would have to repeat kindergarten because he didn’t know what a rhomboid is. Heck, I have to repeat kindergarten.

For a three year old, maybe four, is that such an important thing to be behind in??? They’re still building manual dexterity. Give her a jackknife and let show what Hammie has secretly taught her.

What a problem!

Most likely very symbolic of Wren cutting classes in the future.

Not coloring in the lines in kindergarten and life.

Easy to get into those schools now. Just start telling Wren she is a BOY! :-)

Just let kids be kids. Has it really come to this or am I just over reacting to a joke in a comic strip, the latter I hope.

Maybe Wren is a leftie. I am, and I could not cut anything with scissors using my left hand back in grade school. I had to learn to use my right hand for scissors. While on this subject, I always got bad grades for writing neatness, because those big, soft pencil leads always smeared when used in the left hand…

Parents are often too busy with themselves to pay attention to the education that their children receive and how they are progressing. Later those same parents don’t understand why Johnny can’t read.

It’s the parents job to see that their child learns, not just reading, writing and arithmetic in school, but manners, proper behavior and how to think for themselves and deal with life situations.

Teachers are not there to spoon feed kids, rather they are, or should be there, to be facilitators for learning things like how to read, write, and comprehend math. Sadly too many parents find it easier to abrogate their responsibility to their children.

Hammie will be happy to teach her to cut things. And cheese as a bonus.

Wren can’t make sentences yet and she is old enough to be in preschool handling (safety, I am sure) scissors. I wouldn’t be concerned about the scissor problem.

My cousin’s daughter got marked down because she couldn’t button her coat. The coat had really complicated toggles that you had to line up and then twist. My cousin bought her a new coat with traditional buttons. Problem solved.

Why would Wren be using scissors at that age?

When putting our youngest (of three, also) in kindergarten, we were told she was going to be at a disadvantage because she didn’t know all the letters. Yeah, she was so behind, she didn’t read Moby Dick until middle school.

Send her to a good JC. She will learn more…..

First 5 Kids was encouragement to enact with your kid in the first five years of their life. Not a prerequisite to getting I to school.

Maybe she’s left-handed and is being forced to use right-handed scissors.

Oh that will come with time.

When I was still a toddler, school began at age 5, with kindergarten. But I could read by age 4, with the help of my mother and my own eagerness to learn.

I read somewhere that Harvard doesn’t do scholarships.

My kindergarten teacher said the same thing about me! She tried to claim I had poor fine motor skills, even though I could use scissors at home just fine. Turns out the scissors at school were so dull and loose, you couldn’t cut play-dough with them.

UGH, as if anybody would want to send their kid to Harvard — or Princeton, Yale, etc. MIT, maybe.

Haha! XD